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likcways fliorten all ftraggling ones that extend far from the 

 licles ; then replace the earth, and dig it well about them. Hav- 

 ing Hood here another feafon, cut them over by the ground, 

 and the following, which will be the fourth year, they may be 

 removed where you intend, without tlie lofs of one in a thou- 

 fand. 



The beginning of April, having prepared the borders where 

 you defign planting your hedges, let the HoUies be carefully 

 raifed with bulks of earth about their roots, which will natural- 

 ly adhere to them if the culture direded has been obferved. 

 There will be no occaiion for much pruning of the roots at this 

 time, only with a fharp knife cut off and fmooth any that have 

 been broken or bruifed with the fpade in railing them ; keep 

 them as fliort time as may be out of the ground, and plant them 

 at eighteen inches diftance, the fame depth they formerly flood:; 

 give them a plentiful watering, which ought to be repeated once 

 in ten or twelve days, for three or four times, if the weather is 

 dry. The plants having been cut over the year before, will have 

 made fhoots from a foot to eighteen inches high ; thefe you may 

 reduce to an equal height, about fix or eight inches above the 

 former year's cutting; and thus you have a hedge formed, that 

 requires no further trouble than keeping the roots of the plants 

 clean for a few years, and annually clipping them, which, in an 

 ordinary foil, will, in ten years, defeat the attempts of the flrong- 

 cll bull to injure it. 



I HAVE likeways planted the Holly and Thorn mix'd in hed- 

 ges with mofl defireable fuccefs, every third or fourth plant be- 

 ing a Holly. The Thorns, for four or five years, will advance 



