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hedges. Good plants, two years from cuttings, 

 may be planted a foot apart in the line of hedge. 

 The Privet will grow in almoft any foil ; and it 

 endures the fhears with great patience. 



Planting of Common Laurel Hedges. 



The Laurel forms a delightful fcreen hedge ; 

 and, indeed, is fit only to be ufed in that charac- 

 ter, or as a fhelterer. The Laurel mould not be 

 planted too ciofe together ; from eighteen inches 

 to two feet is near enough. Neither the ihears nor 

 the fwitching bill are to be ufed upon the Laurel 

 Hedge : It muft be kept within bounds, by mork 

 ening the diforderiy branches with the knife. 



Planting Hedges of Tree Box. 



No plant makes more beautiful dwarf orna- 

 mental dividing hedges, than the Tree Box, efpe- 

 cially the variegated varieties. Like the common 

 Laurel, it mould never be clipped or fwitched ; 

 but the draggling branches mould be fhortened in 

 by the knife, fo as to allow the fmall twigs and 

 the leaves to exprefs their own natural beauty. 

 If the Box plants be a foot or eighteen inches 

 high, they may be planted a foot apart in the line 

 of hedge. 



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