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ound, and the middle filled up with niould’ from the 
Fieches on each fide; fo that, when finithed, it forms a 
yard-wide bed all the way on the top. Along the middle 
of this plant two rows of hedge-fets, or fow the feed in 
drills as has been directed above. . 
They fhould alfc be duly hoed and weeded while young, tind 
kept very well cleared from all forts of weeds. This thould 
be particularly attended to the firft two years of their 
growth, — 
And where defigned to be trained, they fhould be annu- 
_ But where no ditch or raifed bank is required, the place ally clipped over in fummer, being topped fparingly while 
for the hedge fhould be marked out on the leve young, only juft trimming off the tops-of the ftraggling- 
two or three feet broad, digging it along, one or two good and run-a y fhoots, to preferve a little regularity, that 
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plants in the proper pofition as the work 
ag ;—and if intended to plant two rows of fets to 
orma double hedge, make another trencha foot diftance ; 
placing thofe of the fecond trench oppofite to the interval 
fpaces of the firft row of fets, earthing them in regularly as 
the others, and treading the whole down clofe to the fets, 
evenly along the furface in the line of the hedg 
working out with the fp c igging out 
a {pade depth of earth at one end, the width of the trench, then 
placing a fet therein clofe to one fide; or, if intended to 
have a double hedge, placing two fets, one to each fide of 
the trench ; and then, in either method, proceeding in dig- 
ging, turning one or two {pades of earth in tpon the roots 
proceed, digging along 
and planting the rows of fets as the work advances; ob- 
ferving in double. rows to place the fets oppofite to the 
mtervals in the rows of each other. 
___In planting with the dibble, the ground thould be pre- 
vioufly well dug over a fpade’s depth ; then trimming the 
ftraggling roots and tops of the plants with the dibble, 
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make a hole for each fet at the above diftances, inferting 
the roots a 
an inch or two m depth with the earth. 
be kept very clear from weeds,. boi ore an : 
plants appear ; the plants are any where too thick, 
they may be thinned out at the proper feafon. | 
“oo ges as are expofed to cattle, muft, as. foon 
as planted, be proteéted either with a ftake hedge, 
hurdles, or rails, for four or five years till they grow up- 
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nd in trench-planting, the fets may likewife be put in, 
but a beautiful flowering 
to thicken them as they advance, and cut in moderate yon the 
fides t when arrived at nearly their proper height, as four, 
five, or fix feet, or more, they may be trimmed in clofe on 
the fides and tops annually, to preferve them thick and 
within their proper bounds, cutting the fides always firft as 
even as poflible ; then the tops, which fhould alfo be cut as 
even as a line, always cutting in nearly to the old wood of 
the former year’s clipping, otherwife the hedges Will be 
too broad ; the tops being always kept narrower than the 
bottoms, in order that they may not become thin. 
The neateft mode of cutting them at the tops is that of 
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nually, fometimes appeared. 
but from their furrounding, fhutting out, 
fhrubbery borders, 
as outward or divifion fences, or for fhelter, th : 
particular compartments, and to cover unfightly objects, or 
various fhoots, néver 
with a noble large foliage, formin 
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grows fo compatt, or is fo eafily kept 
with fhears, they 
and mangled as to have a difagreeable appearance. — 
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feet aiftdace, according to the fize of the plants at the time 
of planting them out in the line of the fence. 
The lauruftinus, from its rg not only an evergreen, 
vering fhrub, forms a delightful hedge 
for ornament, as it is covered with flowers in winter and 
fpring. It is alfo well adapted for training hedge-fafhion 
againit any fhabby fence or naked wall. In either method} 
it thould be: planted in one row, at from 18 inches to three 
The phillyrea and alaternus, being beautiful evergreens, 
form very ornamental hedges. They geatlyelemble cack 
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