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in with all the good soil, manure, charred 
refuse, and green refuse that can be found, 
and the young plants (not more that 2^ feet 
high for success) planted alternately in double 
rows, Attempts to plant larger yews 
and so secure a full-grown hedge to start 
with are rarely successful. This I know to 
my cost, for a large load of beautiful yews 
4 feet high and costing about jT 1 5 were 
planted here one autumn in rather^ dry soil, 
and hardly one survived. 
All yews need heavy mulchings of manure 
in their earlier stages, and beyond a little 
pruning at the base and sides to strengthen 
their lower growth, should not be clipped 
until they are 4 or 5 feet high. 
It is not generally known that a box-hedge 
can be transplanted even when it has grown 
to a good size, and I am always grateful to a 
chance acquaintance in some foreign hotel 
who shared his experiences in this direction 
with me. By carrying out his instructions, I 
was able some years later to move a very old 
clipped hedge from a cottage garden at some 
distance off my own garden. The secret lay 
in digging a fairly deep trench and putting 
good stuff at the bottom of it, and then to cut 
half through the stem of each plant of box 
