Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 6 g 
Or where it may be intended to raife a quick-fet 
hedge, by fowing the haws at once in the place where 
the nedge is required, they fhould be lowed as foon as 
gathered, in autumn, September, O&oberor Novem¬ 
ber; when digging and levelling the ground either 
equal with the general furface, or for fowing on the 
top of a raifed bank, draw drills with an hoe, two or 
three inches deep, in a Angle or double row ; fow the 
haws in the drills moderate tnick, and mold them over; 
then oblerving, as they will, not vegetate till the fe- 
cor.d fpring, lhcuidkeep the ground clear from weeds 
in the interim; and when the plants come up, if too 
abundant, fome may be drawn out, leaving a fuffici- 
ency of the belt to form the hedge. 
In the different methods of planting thefe hedges, 
where it appears r.ecelfary in expofed places, to have 
fome defence againlt the depredations of cattle, till 
the hedge is growrn up in ftrength; it Ihould be added 
foon after planting, either with rails, open paling, 
hurdles, or a dead hedge of Hakes and buihee, as may 
be convenient; likewile, keep the young hedges clear 
from rampant and climbing weeds, till thp quick is 
advanced in growth, which, though often negle&ed 
in thofe planted for outward fences, Ihould be attended 
to with particular care. 
The young hedges in their advancing growth, efpe- 
cially tnofe defigr.ed for regular training, Ihould be 
managed accordingly, that when advanced in young 
lhoots, fhould be clipped moderately at the fides, but 
cut fparingly at top, till arrived to the proper or 
intend? - height, only juft run over with the garden 
(hears, topping any rampant fhoots which out grew 
the others conftderably, that the whole may advance 
equally, and foon atu in the ddired height aforefaid, 
of four, five or fix feet; and thus may run over the 
whole top lightly every year while the hedge is in 
training, to have it advance even and regular, as well 
as to make it fhoot oui below, thickening as it ad¬ 
vances, clipping the fides alfo even; and where the 
hedge is required to afpire to fome confiderable height 
of five, fix or feven feet, to afford fhelter againft 
winds and cold blafts, in particular diftrifts, it may 
be permitted to run up fafter at top, and generally 
cut up taper on the fides in a gradual manner, to have 
the top confiderably thinner or narrower than the bot¬ 
tom part. 
However, where defigned as a ftrong outer-fence, 
a hedge of three, four or five feet height may be fuf- 
ficient, efpecially if growing on the top of a bank, 
and may be cut more at top accordingly, that it may 
thicken confiderably quite from the bottom, in a 
ftrong, robuft growth ; but if on level ground, may 
be run up five or fix feet, or more; and then, in all 
of which, kept to the proper ftandard, by an annual 
dipping. 
Then when the trained hedges are advanced to the 
intended height of four, to five, fix or feven feet, 
agreeable to the above intimations, they fhould be 
kept in regular order, by conftant dipping once every 
year at fides and top, to continue them of the proper 
width and height; generally in thofe arrived to full 
growth, cutting them in generally to the old cut of the 
former year, and the clipping performed ftraight and 
even, commonly keeping the hedge narroweic upward 
to the top in a gradual manner. 
The proper feafon for clipping thefe hedges is prin- 
dpally in fummer, from the middle or latter end of 
June, to Auguft or September, when the fhoots being 
green and tender, the clipping is performed with con¬ 
fiderable facility, expedition and exaflnefs; or where 
any particular hedges are required to be kept in the 
neateft order all fummer, two clippings fhould be per¬ 
formed twice every year in that feafon; the firft about 
the middle or latter end of June, and the fecond to¬ 
wards the latter end of Auguft; but where only one 
clipping in fummer is allotted, it fhould generally be 
performed in July or Auguft, or beginning of Sep¬ 
tember, after the hedge has done fhooting, that it 
may continue clofe for the remainder of autumn, and 
all winter, till following fummer; if, however, the 
clipping is omitted in the above feafons, it may be 
performed any time in winter; but the fhoots being 
then hardened, the work cannot be fo eafily effected 
as in fummer or autumn. 
Though, as to common thorn hedges in fields, they, 
in the greater part, are permitted to run up rough 
without any clipping, till advanced to a tall growth ; 
then generally, when grown up in large ferns and 
branches, and naked in the lower parts, the large naked 
wood is thinned out, and the remaining fmaller ftems 
and branches are plafhcd or laid down horizontally, to 
thicken the hedge in a clofe growth, quite from the 
bottom; is effected by leaving fome of the ftrongeft 
ftems for growing flakes, then the other ftems and large 
branches are gafhedwith a hedge-bill in a doping cut, 
efpecially thofe not diffidently pliant to bend down, fo 
laying the whole along in a flanting pofition the way 
of the hedge, plafhing them between the upright, 
Handing ftems, which fhould be headed to the intended 
height of the hedge, three or four feet ; when thus 
plafhed, and the whole is layed, then with a hedge-bill 
aforefaid, trim the fides and top fomewhat regular; it 
thus forms a ftrong, thick hedge, equally clofe from 
top to bottom. 
Cupressus, CYPRESS TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Monoecia Mbnadelphia, 
One Hoitfe, One brotherhood ; 
Or Male and Female Flowers, feparate, on the fame Tree, 
and the Male Flowers having the Stamina , or dln~ 
thera united in one Body. 
THIS Genus of Cupressus furnifhes three fperies 
and feveral varieties of eminently beautiful ever¬ 
green 
