CULTIVATING HEDGES.
An agricultural writer of some eminence says; after remarking that many hedges, are ruined by'being-'pruned--too muoh, tlia ihe more he sees of the working of the following plan, the more he is satisfied that by adopting it a better hedge-espe-cially of honey locust, osaga orange, and other deoidnous kinds-can be secured in half the time, ahdathalfthe cost than by any other method .\'' It is the. best to let theso grow until the stems are; two. inohos thick at theground,l then saw'tnem to within lialf an inoh of the ground. They will then pushup a pevfeot ;wilder- : ness' of young .sprouts, .which cab .be pruned into shape the same reason. Ot| this plan the young: hedge plants are often two years wholly untouched; 11 ; :
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 5 April 1883, Page 2
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125CULTIVATING HEDGES. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 5 April 1883, Page 2
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