An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 486 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Part II. 470 \ specific time of t
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa01loud Year: 1831 486 SCIENCE OF AGRICULTURE. Part II. 470 \ specific time of the season to clean a hedge, but the safe rule Is always to clean it before the weeds in the least envelop it. The most common weeds which infest hedges in loamy ground are, the tussilago, way thistle, corn sow-thistle, common docks, sorrel, ribwort, groundsel, hedge vetch (a trailing plant very like the vetch, but with a bright yellow pea-blossom), bindweed, sticking-grass, cow-clover, wild mustard, chickweed, dead-nettle, rest-harrow, great white ox-eye, corn poppy, white lychnis, blae- wort, and several of the grasses. The tussilago, rest-harrow, ox-eye, and docks, are most difficult to eradicate; the bindweed, sticking-grass, vetch, and the yellow-flowering trailing plant, interlace the branches of the thorns, and are exceedingly difficult to eradicate ; and if there be but a single fibre ot the wild mustard attaching the plant to the ground, it will grow again with vigour. 3013. Pruning. A hedge will hardly require pruning in the first year of its growth; but should it grow very luxuriantly, it is very proper to cut off the upper part of the tops of all overgrown plants, as it is very desirable 'for the well-being of a hedge that all the plants grow alike, and that no plant by its overgrowth overshadow its neighbours. On examining those luxuriant plants, they will be found to be of that variety to which I have given the preference. Any branch that may be straggling much i
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