504 THE PLEASURE, OR [Sept. 



tliff'erent parts, planting the low growing kinds in front and the 

 taller more remote from the walks. 



Continue to keep the general flower borders, clumps, and other 

 similar districts very clean, and in neat order, and go around all 

 the beds, borders, and shrubbery compartments once a week to 

 cut down decayed flower stems, for such detract much from the 

 beauty of the plants in flower as well as from that-of the general 

 appearance. 



Regulate disorderly growths, tie up straggling branches, and 

 pick off all decayed leaves; likewise prune or cut away any branches 

 or twigs that appear in a mouldy or declining state on any of the 

 flowering plants or shrubs. 



Box Edgings. 



Clip box edgings where it was omitted in the two former months, 

 but let this be done as soon now as possible, that the box may have 

 time to grow a little and put on a fresh appearance before winter; 

 it will be best to do this in wet or cloudy weather, if such should 

 happen in due time. 



In the last week of this month, should the season prove moist, 

 you may begin to plant box edgings where wanted, as directed in 

 page 303, but if the weather sets in dry and hot immediately after, 

 it will be necessary to shade them with boards, &c. for a month; 

 about that period they will be newly rooted, and appear neat all 

 winter. However, should the weather not prove favourable in this 

 month, it would be more advisable to defer that work till the early 

 part of October. 



If you have low bunches of dwarf box, that the offsets are gene- 

 rally rooted, you need be under no apprehension of their striking 

 fresh root and growing freely at this time if kept regularly watered, 

 but where you form edgings of box cuttings, these will require to 

 be carefully shaded from the sun, at least for a month after, if 

 planted at this season. 



Clip Hedges. 



Such hedges as have not been trimmed in the preceding month 

 should be clipped in the early part of this, before the shoots get 

 hard. 



In clipping hedges, always take particular care to have the 

 shears in perfect good order, that you may be able to make neat 

 and expeditious work. Let the sides of the full grown hedges be 

 always clipped in nearly to the former year's cut, and as even and 

 straight as possible; for it looks awkward and not workmanlike 

 to see the sides of hedges, especially garden hedges, waved and 

 uneven: and always observe to clip a hedge in such a way as to 

 slope in a narrowing manner upwards, that the top maybe a little 

 narrower than the bottom, and at the same time as even and level 

 as possible. 



In clipping young hedges under training be cautious not to cut 



