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planted where the greatcll ftrength is re- 

 quired. 



But the boldcjl idea I have met with in 

 hedge-planting is that of burying the 

 PLANTS ! by covering up their heads, an 

 inch or more deep, with mould : and this, 

 not as an experiment, but in the praftice of 

 a common labourer. 



The method of planting, in this cafe, is 

 the common one of fetting the plants behind 

 the *' cape-fod," or firfl-turned fpit. But 

 inftead of leaving the heads two or three 

 inches above ground, the plants are fhorten- 

 ed, and the heads placed about an inch be- 

 low the furface. 



Obferving a work of this kind prefently 

 after it was executed, I waited v/ith impa- 

 tience to fee the event. In Av.q feafon the 

 plants made their appearance i not in a num- 

 ber of irregular fpreading ilioots, as from an 

 expofed head i but rifing, as from fesd, in 

 one, or perhaps two or three, ftraight upright 

 fhoots, of peculiar ftrength and beauty. 



They did not, however, rife together i 

 fome of them remaining in the ground f:ve- 

 fal weeks after the earlieft made their appear- 

 ance. 



