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if any are designed for hedges, they will be of a pro¬ 
per fize for that pUrpofe ; or thofe intended to train 
ffor ftandard fhrubs and trees, (hould be tranfplanted 
again into nurfery-rows, two feet and a half diftance, 
by a foot to fifteen or eighteen inches in the rows, in 
which, growing two or three years, or till they have 
attained two or three, to four or five feet growth, are 
proper for the plantations for which they are intend¬ 
ed ; as they (hould generally have their final tranf- 
planting in the allotted places where they are to re¬ 
main, before they grow large; or, when of advanc¬ 
ed fize, they may be removed, with balls of earth to 
their roots, both for hedges and other occafions. 
The Dahoon Holly is likewife raifed from feed, and 
occafionally by grafting or budding it upon Hocks of 
the common fort: the feed fhould be managed and 
fowed as directed for the Common Holly, or fowed in 
pots, placed under Ihelter from froft; and if in March 
they are plunged in a hot-bed, it will bring up the plants 
foon, and forward them in growth, when harden them 
to the full air in fummer, and (heltered under a frame, 
in winter, from froft; and when the plants, in either 
method, are one or two years old, tranfplant them in 
a warm fituation, in the fpring, or fome in pots, to 
have protedtion, in winter, for two or three years; 
then may be turned out into the full ground, in a nur- 
fery, or where they are to remain; the others planted 
in the nurfery, may alfo be tranfplanted finally, when 
two, to three or four feet growth, into the (hrub- 
bery. 
To propagate the different varieties of the fpecies 
of Holly, it is effedted, only, by grafting or budding 
them upon ftocks of the common kind, for they will 
not come the fame from feed; but the ftocks, on 
which to graft and bud them, are always raifed from 
feed, by the methods already explained, and the plants 
fet out in nurfery-rows, to have one or two years 
growth, with Items a quarter to half an inch thick; 
then may be grafted or budded with grafts and buds 
of the variegated forts: the grafting is performed in 
the fpring, March, or beginning of April, by whip¬ 
grafting for fmall ftocks, and flit or cleft-grafting for 
larger; and the budding is effedted in July or Auguft, 
in the common method; and in both of which is per¬ 
formed generally low in the flock, within a few inches 
of the bottom, or occafionally at one or two feet 
height in taller ftocks; and when, after this operation, 
the grafted and budded plants have remained two or 
three years, or more, to make proper (hoots from the 
grafts and buds, and form the beginning-heads of 
the refpedtive kinds, with which they were grafted 
and budded, they are proper for tranfplanting into 
(hrubberies, and other ornamental plantations, and for 
hedges, &c. or, when they are occafionally to be 
tranfplanted of larger fize, if they could be removed 
with balls to the roots, it would be of particular advan¬ 
tage, in having them fucceed more certainly in 2 
profperous growth. 
The Hollies, planted in (hrubberies, &c. or in Angle, 
detached ftandards, in any particular compartments, 
may either be permitted to branch in their natural or¬ 
der, or the under-branches pruned up moderately by 
degrees, and the whole encouraged to (hoot above in 
full heads, or of which may only prune to order any 
cafual rambling branches and lhoots. 
Or, if any are defigned for forelb-tree plantations, 
the Common Green Holly, raifed from feed, is the- 
only proper fort for this purpofe, and may be' intro¬ 
duced among others of the ever-green tribe; though, 
as the Holly trees are of (low growth, they are not 
much planted for this purpofe ; but in fome parts of 
this country, where the trees are growing naturally in 
woods and forefts, they are of a coniiderable fize, 
thirty or forty feet high, and large trunks ; fo that 
fome trees maybe admitted among other ever-green, 
foreft-trees, generally planted out in young growth, 
and, in their advancing (late, prune up the under¬ 
branches by degrees; and run them with the leading 
top-fhoot entire, that they may advance with a fingle, 
clean ftem, of ftraight growth, and permitted to grow 
with full heads. 
For Holly hedges, the Common Green, raifed from 
feed, is proper for general ufe, and any of the varie¬ 
gated kinds principally for ornament; though all the 
forts, or varieties of the Ilex Aqu folium, are admi¬ 
rably adapted for hedges, mod beautiful and ufeful, 
both for ornament, and for Ihelter to particular divi- 
fions, and to afford protedtion to tender plants from 
cold; as alfo for outward fences, and for which pur¬ 
pofe it is fingularly effedtual, as well as ornamental, at 
all feafons; and the plants maybe as eafily raifed for 
hedges as the Hawthorn, and planted and trained nearly 
as diredted for that fpecies, in hedges, under the 
Genus Cratagus; only the Hollies are rather of flow 
growth in the beginning, but when once well eftab- 
liflied in the ground, they advance freely in a clofe, 
branchy growth, from the bottom upward, and (hoot 
at top proportionally, to admit of training the hedge, 
five or fix, to eight, ten, or fifteen feet high, or 
more. 
Where Holly hedges are intended, they may be 
formed either by planting young plants from a nurfery, 
of two or three years old, or by feed, prepared as 
before diredted, previous to (owing, then lowed in au¬ 
tumn or fpring, in the place where the hedge is in¬ 
tended, in a drill; and, in either of which, where a 
double thick hedge is required for an outward fence, 
may plant two rows of fets a foot afunder, the plants 
fix inches to a foot apart in the row ; and if feed is 
intended, it may alfo be fowed in two drills, the fame 
dif- 
