HEDGE. ‘ 
nurfery till of a proper fize, as two years old, and then 
plant them out in rows as above-direéted. 
Plants of the crab-tree, of the apple, as well as thorn 
forts, are fometimes planted for hedges; but the plants for 
this purpofe fhould be fuch as are raifed from the kernels of 
the wild crabs, which come up more thorny than thofe of 
the cultivated kinds, and fhoot more branchy and clofe, 
quite from the bottom. Thefe fhould, however, only be 
made ufe of, as being of quick growth, and where the others 
‘cannot be procured in plenty. 
The hedges of thefe kinds may either be raifed by fowing 
the kernels of the fruit in autumn or winter, in the place 
where the hedge is intended, in drills, the whole length an 
inch deep, covering them that depth with earth, or the 
plants raifed firft from feed in the nurfery, which, when a 
year or two old, may be planted out. Some of the plants 
of the hedge may, in this way, be fuffered to grow up, and 
afford an annual crop of crabs for verjuice. proper num- 
ber of the plants may likewife be uled, as they ftand in the 
hedge, for ftocks to graft on with ufefal family or cyder 
apples. Thefe methods however feldom anfwer any good 
purpofe. . 
Elder plants are alfo ufed for outward hedges, where a 
_Aind the alder is alfo proper to plant for hedges in wet or 
ani = ae cs as being an aquatic, and growing readily 
pe 2 all or large cuttings like the elder. It quickly forms 
This is very proper on the borders of sieien: brooks, or - 
other waters, as its roots, and numerous fuckers arifing 
from their lower parts, form fuch a clofe thicket, as effec- 
tually to preferve the earth of the banks from being under- 
mined, and wafhed down by the water. : 
Alfo the Lombardy poplar, as emitting numerous fide- 
branches quite from the bottom, i 
growth, is alfo occafionally employed to form an expeditious 
to train as a loftier hedge for fhelter, thade, blind, and 
other purpofes. : . 
Indeed, hedges of this plant are formed at once, if wanted, 
or more in heigh: * havi 
may be kept t 
elipping in the fummer 
ow is alfo fometimes planted to form outward hedges 
any y or moift fituation. ey are planted either b 
a Sages : - as ag lon, : fets of feveral feet, and in- 
4orm an immediate hedge. 
only objection to it is, its flownefs of growth the firft four 
or five years. The holly makes a beautiful garden hedge 
in mixture with the hawthern. 
Hedges of this fort of plants are formed either by fowing 
the feeds at once in the places where the hedges are to bey 
in drills an inch and a half deep; or by planting young 
plants. of two or three years old from the nurfery: this is 
rather the beft praétice. hey may be planted in one or 
hey may be kept in order by clipping 
once or twice a year, or as there may be occafion. ; 
ew is occcalionally ufed as a boundary hedge, and when 
full grown, is very thick and clofe, and has a good appear- 
ance 
Tt is neceflary that thefe hedges fhould be guarded by a 
ditch or bank on the outfide. They are eft raifed by 
fetting the young plants after they have been raifed from t 
berries. 
he roots of 
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the bank formed with fguare fpit turfs from the: atl =a 
