504 THE PLEASURE, OR [Sept. 
different parts, planting the low growing kinds in front and the 
taller more remote from the walks. 
Continue to keep the general flower borders, clumps, and other 
similar districts very clean, and in neat order, and go around all 
the beds, borders, and shrubbery compartments once a week to 
cut down decayed flower stems, for such detract much from the 
beauty of the plants in flower as well as from that of the general 
appearance. 
Regulate disorderly growths, tie up straggling branches, and 
pick off all decayed leavesj likewise prune or cut away any branches 
or twigs that appear in a mouldy or declining state on any of the 
flowering plants or shrubs. 
Box Edgings. 
Clip box edgings where it was omitted in the two former months, 
but let this be done as soon now as possible, that the box may have 
time to grow a little and put on a fresh appearance before winter; 
it will be best to do this in wet or cloudy weather, if such should 
happen in due time. 
In the last week of this month, should the season prove moist, 
you may begin to plant box edgings where wanted, as directed in 
page 303, but if the weather sets in dry and hot immediately after, 
it will be necessary to shade them with boards, &c. for a month; 
about that period they will be newly rooted, and appear neat all 
winter. However, should the weather not prove favourable in this 
month, it would be more advisable to defer that work till the early 
part of October. 
If you have low bunches of dwarf box, that the oft'sets are gene- 
rally rooted, you need be under no apprehension of their striking 
fresh root and growing freely at this time if kept regularly watered, 
but where you form edgings of box cuttings, these will require to 
be carefully shaded from the sun, at least for a month after, if 
planted at this season. 
Clip Hedges. 
Such hedges as have not been trimmed in the preceding month 
should be clipped in the early part of this, before the shoots get 
hard. 
In clipping hedges, always take particular care to have the 
shears in perfect good order, that you may be able to make neat 
and expeditious work. Let the sides of the full grown hedges be 
always clipped in nearly to the former year's cut, and as even and 
straight as possible; for it looks awkward and not workmanlike 
to see the sides of hedges, especially garden hedges, waved and 
uneven: and always observe to clip a hedge in such a way as to 
slope in a narrowing manner upwards, that the top may be a little 
narrower than the bottom, and at the same time as even and level 
as possible. 
In clipping young hedges under training be cautious not to cut 
