The Hawthorn. 



be taken to assort the plants well; to class them into 

 strong ones and weak ones ; and, perhaps, three classes 

 would be better than two. It is of the greatest consequence 

 in the putting these plants finally out, that there be no 

 mixture of weak plants and strong plants 3 because when 

 the plants come to go into hedges, the strong plants will 

 overtop the weak ones, and leave gaps, which can never be 

 very easily closed up again; the weaker plants may stand 

 a year or two longer in the nursery than the strong ones 

 according to the purposes for which they are wanted. 



276. No one makes a jolantation of Hawthorns. The 

 great use of the tree is to make hedges, commonly called 

 Quickset Hedges. The age of the plants for this work, 

 and the manner of doing the work, are detailed at full 

 length in paragraphs 34 to 37 inclusive, to which the 

 reader will be pleased here to refer; but, in that part of 

 the work, having spoken of a high bank whereon to plant the 

 hedge, T ought to mention here, that precisely the same in- 

 structions are to be followed if the hedges are to be planted 

 on the level ground. 



277' plants are wanted to make part of a shrubbery, 

 or to become standard trees in a park or a lawn, they 

 should be pruned up the sides as they proceed, in the nur- 

 sery, where they should not stand above four or five years, and 

 they should have one removal in the nursery, and one sum- 

 mer's growth there, the year before they be finally removed. 

 This will give them a bush root ; there will be little of the 

 root to amputate at the final removal; and they will strike 

 off in the new ground, if they be carefully planted there ; 

 that is to say, if the work of planting be performed in the 

 manner directed in the case of the Ash. If thus planted, 

 they will start afresh with very little check. 



