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Sots, 
HED 
RE pe: the phillyrea es the flrongeft grower, as well 
as eft fhooter, is the s fi 
paths both may be ufed : a ood evergreen 
fhrubs for training hedge-fafhion againit unfightly or naked 
walls, or paling — as they foon cover them; and 1 
the common and variegated kinds are intermixed, in 
either mode of hed hedeionce rk, they have a delightful effe@ at 
all feafons of the year. - They fhould be planted in one row 
at from about 1 5 or18 inches, to two or — feet Saas 
between plant and plant in the lines of the fence 
. ‘The bay is alfo rexpalle of forming a talevale evergreen 
hedge for variety, and may be led up fix or feven feet high, 
placing the eee half a yard diftance from each other i m the 
lines. 
The —— oak is likewife a proper plant to form a 
tall hedge, as it may be trained 15 or 20 feet high, if re- 
quired: It thould be planted in one row, fetting the plants 
one, two, or three feet afunder, according to their fize or 
n i 
ss reen privet will alfo form a handfome ned 
hedge, foe or fix feet-high, by planting the fets a foot afun 
der, and training it up narrow at top in the manner noticed 
above. 
mall forts . —_ are proper ra hedges, ales 
from about 1 ches, to tive or three feet in height, 
though the holly ‘ceil better when planted in its younger 
growth. 
- soihe feafon for planting them is either in autumn 
or in the a Si : for itis not fafe to tranfplant evergreens Frnc 
the middle o: winter. Where the foil is moiit, the latter 
en — but in dry gravelly foils, the former 
nee 
In seem thefe avs of evergreens, for middle or in- 
ternal hedges, no ditches or sey are ions as for out- 
ward hedges or fences ; fo that in the place where the hedge 
edatareice a fort of border thould be marked out the whole 
le » two or three wi 
Sethe reception of the plants: the plants need. only, in 
thefe — be planted in a fingle row or line. 
Am the deciduous plants, the hornbeam forms a beau- 
tiful Se hedge, being a moderate but very clofe fhooter, 
-well furnifhed: with leaves, and capable of being trained u 
from fix or eight, te about 12 or 15 feet high; but the leaves, 
though they wither inautumn, remaining firmly attached to 
branches all winter, = wn a fhabby appearance at: 
rows, 
form a — moderate hedge as foon as poflible ; but if de- 
g be brought up pretty tall, and the plants are 
ipending, they fhould be fet about three feet diftant in 
lines. 
The beech alfo forms a clofe regular hedge, from about 
fix or eight to fifteen or twenty feet high: the leaves os oad 
ing’on. the branches pie ais continue dropping off moft 
part of the winter. Thefe plants fhould bé planted in the 
jame manner as the oa 
The a cos even, ona beautiful hedge, and 
g or trenched over. 
up parts of rivers. 
HED 
may be trained from fix or eight, to ten, twenty, or tity fet 
high, forming aclofe fence from-top to bettom. The plants 
for this purpofe may be from three or four, to eight or ten 
eet or more in height, and fhould be planted i in a fingle row 
from two or three, to fix or eight feet diftant, according as 
they are lefs or more eee and as wanted to 
clofe hedge as foon as poffible 
he lime-tree is fometimes employed for ornamental 
hedges for variety, but is much inferior to the other dect- 
duous “eat as it becomes thin and fhabby by clipping, and 
is — leav 
ther ae kinds of fhrubs of this fort art fometimes em- 
ployed for variety : fome forts, gees as bos honey fucklesy. 
and fyrigas, when formed into edges, oh es 
property as pert: — great qudasieeed of flowers, and 
afford a fine fra 
The plants fas this ufe are of a proper fize when from 
about one foot to a yard in height, according to the forts. 
fing fuch as are well 
e head quite from the bottom. : 
be planted ales in autumn or early {pring, in open weather. 
The — * planting them is nearly the fame as in the 
evergreen kin ; 
Thele! forts of hedges fhould be trained and clipped in the 
me manner as directed above. : co 
In order to keep garden hedges in perfeét goo od order, 
; aa fhould be clipped twice eve tA {ummer : the, firft time 
about Midfummes, when the e made their fummer 
fhoot ; and the fecond clipping creek the middle or latter 
end of Augutt. ] 
fummer, the clipping fhould not be performed until the 
Slee: Pipl See oar 
To tine a Hence, in Military Afi is to 
keteers along it under cover; either to fire upon an enemy. 
that is advancing to fave themfelves fe the horfe, or te 
defend a pafs or defile. 
HeEpcGE in Zoology. See ERINACEUS 
Sea-Hepvex-hog. See CenTRONIA and Ecusopenitse 
es opens AG 
Sir Thomas Hyde P Mr. Ane 
thony Tatlow, na she have eae this method * 
gaining land from wide rivers; on this ee 
complifhed on a confiderable fcale by oo ftaking 
rows irze faggots, as —— in our arti article CAN 
. Hepe B See GRATIOLA. — 
H eDarE. nettle-, EES ; . He 
4 Hes LEDGE-, sparrow, in pee ee ce Moracits 
ularis 
Hence-clipping Machine, in Gardening, 2 a fort of machine 
{caffelding, or ita ey epamies ten, twenty, Or thirty fee ta 
at different a begin te 
Aas ae upon 
a bs 
it is compofed of fo g poles for | we ) 
= =: together, eight or sage se wide at 
