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for forming fcreens and flicker in damp fituations, 

 where the hawthorn would nor grow. 



The moft proper plants for forming fuch hedges 

 are, the Birch, the Alder, the Elder, the Willow, 

 and the Poplar. Seedlings of the two former 

 kinds are required ; the latter forts may be rear- 

 ed from cuttings inferted in the places where they 

 are intended to grow. 



The plants of Birch and Alder, * which are moft 

 proper for being planted out, are one-year feedlings 

 which have been one year nurfed ; thefe mould be 

 planted without being cut down. Both Birch and 

 Alder are moft proper for being laid after ditch- 

 ing, as dire&ed for Thorn Hedges in laft month. 

 Neverthelefs-, they may be alfo planted upon the 

 furface, without any ditch. 



The other forts may either be planted on the 

 furface, or after ditching, with equal propriety. 

 Jf, however, they are to be planted upon the fur- 

 face, without any ditch, the land mould be pro- 

 perly prepared. The beft method is by a light 

 trenching : paring off the furface, and burying it 

 under a good deep spading of earth, will be ge- 

 nerally fufficient. The furface mould not be left 

 over rough j and the cuttings are then to be thruft 



perpen- 



* The Alder is also propagated from cuttings, but with 

 less certainty than the other sorts. For this reason, we re- 

 commend planting Alder hedges with rooted plants* 



