The Yew. 



was quite as much delighted with this object, as I was with 

 the house and park of Lord Egremont, the gate that opens 

 to which, is not more than two hundred yards distance 

 from this hedge. 



598. The SEEDS of the Yew ought to be gathered when 

 they are ripe, which is Lite in October, or early in Novem- 

 ber; and if they be sown immediately, in beds prepared 

 like those pointed out for the Ash, they will come up the 

 first year; but, perhaps, the better way would be, to pre- 

 serve them in the manner directed for the seeds of the 

 Hawthorn, in paragraph 273, and then to sow them in any 

 of the months between November aud March, or in March 

 of the second year. The plants will come up in the month 

 of May, and then they are to be treated in precisely the same 

 manner as that pointed out for the treatment of the Red 

 Cedar. See paragraph 171 , see also, and pay particular 

 attention to, paragraph 215 ; for unless you take the pre- 

 cautions there pointed out, you will fail in the raising of 

 Yew Trees. 



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599. If Yew Trees are to form hedges, they should be 

 planted in two rows, the rows at two feet apart, the plants 

 at two feet apart in the row, and the plants in one row 

 standing opposite the middle of the intervals of the plants 

 in the other row. The year after planting, they might be 

 cut down to within a foot of the ground, or lowers for the 

 Yew will throw out new shoots. Prominent branches 

 must be cut off, the lateral shoots trained along horizon- 

 tally, and the lower ones close to the ground. In a few 

 years, the trees in the two rows would interweave their 

 branches. The clipping with the shears should be begun 

 in a few years; and you may suffer the hedge to become 

 as wide and as high as you please, by always leaving 



