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It may therefore be carried to a great height, 

 and confequently is highly fitted for fituations 

 where ftrength and flicker are required. It lux- 

 uriates mod in rich fandy loams, although there 

 are few foils in which it will not grow. After 

 planting, the Holly makes but very indifferent 

 pro^refs for a few years ; but after it becomes 

 eftabliihed in the ground ; or, about the third or 

 fourth year after planting, no fence whatever will 

 outgrow the Holly. 



The fame method of planting, recommended 

 for the thorn, will anfwer for the Holly. It how- 

 ever may, in fome cafes, be necefiary to plant 

 hedges of it upon the furface without a ditch, as 

 upon the back of a funk fence, or the like. In 

 fuch cafes, it mould be laid, as recommended for 

 trees in the nurfery. The moft proper plants for 

 fuch purpofes, are thofe which have been nurfed 

 two years from the tranfplanted beds, or four-year 

 old plants. Such mould be planted at nine or ten 

 inches apart. We have already fpoken of the care 

 neceflary in preferving the adhering earth, at the 

 roots of evergreens lifted from the nurfery ground. 

 Such care is efpecially important, in regard to the 

 Holly. It is very hurtful to Holly plants to be 

 lifted, and to have their roots expofed in dry 

 weather. It is therefore proper to delay lifting 

 them, if poflible, till damp weather : But if they 

 muft be lifted in time of drought, their roots 



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