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HEB 286 HED
pots are properly drained, there is not and bank, and leveling the top of the
much danger to be apprehended from bank so as to form a sort of border,
over watering; but the plants are sure then plant the sets in one or two rows
to suffer if the ball is allowed to get the whole length ; but two rows a foot
too dry, and hence the great use of asunder is the most eligible for all outsmall
pieces of freestone, recommended ward fences, as it always forms the
by Mr. M'Nab. In the winter season, thickest, strongest, and most effectual
when there is any danger from frost, hedge-fence. Mark out a space for a
heaths and all other hardy green-house ditch three or four feet wide at top,
plants should always be watered in the which is to be digged three feet deep
early part of the day, as they are much each side, sloping gradually to a foot
more likely to be injured if watered in wide at bottom, forming a bank along
the afternoon. It is the best plan under upon the inner edge on which to bed or
these circumstances to keep them as plant, which should be planted as you
dry as they will bear without injury, for advance in forming the ditch and bank.
wet soil freezes much sooner than dry. Having lined out the width of the ditch.
Frequent syringing is also of great use then along the inner edge lay a row of
in fine weather ; but this must never be square spit turfs, grass side downwards,
done when the plants are likely to suf- to form the beginning of the bank, backfer
from damp, or when the weather ing it up with spits of earth from the
is cold and frosty. The principal art of formation of the ditch, and top it with
making fine specimens of heaths, con- a little of the fine mould or crumbs;
sists in dwarfing them, and forming and then upon this proceed to lay the
them into round green bushes. This is first row of plants: first let the sets
done by pinching out the points of the be headed to about five or six inches,
shoots when the plants are young, and and the roots trimmed, then lay them
continuing the practice whenever the upon the bed of turf with their tops outstems
are inclined to grow long-jointed, ward, in an upward direction, about ten
It must, however, be done in a judi- or twelve inches asunder, covering their
cious manner, otherwise if done at the roots with mould also out of the ditch ;
wrong season the flowering will be and then lay another row of turf along
spoiled. The proper time is after the upon the necks of the plants, and more
flowering season is past, or when the mould from the ditch upon, and behind,
plant is growing freely, and before it the turf; and when the bank is thus
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has begun to form its flower buds."— raised a foot above the row of sets.
Gard. Chron
HEBENSTREITIA Ten species,
plant another row in the same manner,
placing each set against the spaces of
Green-house evergreen shrubs Cut- those of the first row, so covering them
tings. Sandy loam and peat
with more earth from the ditch to the
HEDEOMA. Two species. Hardy depth of three feet, sloping each side to
annuals. Seeds. Common soi
one foot width at bottom, and trim up
HEDERA. Ivy Two species and all remaining earth, throwing a sufseveral
varieties, Hardy evergreen
climbers. Slips. Common soil
HEDGE, properly includes every
ficiency behind the top of the banking to
bank up the whole even, in a sort of
broad border, all the way along the top,
kind of fence, but the present details sloping a little back, so as to correspond
apply for the most part to growing nearly with the adjoining ground. But
fences. Abercrombie says, that "all in planting for an outward fence, some
outward hedges designed as fences form the ditch and bank first as above.
should have a ditch on the outside, three and plant the sets in two rows along the
or four feet wide at the top, three top ; that is, afier having formed the
deep, sloping to one wide at bottom, ditch and bank, then leveling the top
raising a low bank on the inside on forming a foot of border all along a
which to plant the hedge, which may yard wide; plant the sets along the
be planted either on the side of the middle thereof upright, in two rows a
'said inner bank in two rows, one above foot asunder, and sis inches distant in
the other a foot asunder, planting them each row, observing the same when inaa
you advance in forming the ditch and tended to raise a hedge at once from
bank, or may be planted entirely on the seed sowed where you design the hedge
top of the bank, first forming the ditch to | be, sowing them along the top in