The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . ^-^ Fig. 18 —Badlt Trim-med Hedge, (end view.). ^i;i7Afi£3-c- cut again four inches higher about midsummer, and similar and succes-sive cuttings, each a little longer, in the two following years, brought thehedge up to its full height. The form adopted in shearing is shown by the cross-section in fig. 17, the upperpart terminating in a sharp ridge,and growing wider towards the bot-tom. In this way the lower part pre-serves its growth, vigor, and dense-ness, and is not thinned by the sha-ding of the broad
The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . ^-^ Fig. 18 —Badlt Trim-med Hedge, (end view.). ^i;i7Afi£3-c- cut again four inches higher about midsummer, and similar and succes-sive cuttings, each a little longer, in the two following years, brought thehedge up to its full height. The form adopted in shearing is shown by the cross-section in fig. 17, the upperpart terminating in a sharp ridge,and growing wider towards the bot-tom. In this way the lower part pre-serves its growth, vigor, and dense-ness, and is not thinned by the sha-ding of the broad top, so commonlyseen, and exhibited in fig. 18. AFig. 19—Neglected Hedge, (side view.) neighbor, who made a good beginningwith a hedge of the Osage Orange, could not be persuaded to cut oflf thefine growth after the first season, as represented in fig. 16; his hedgeconsequently never thickened at the bottom, and now presents the ap-pearance shown in the side view—fig. 19. OUT-BUILDIXGS. Immediately behind the dwelling, and fifteen feet from it, is the build-ing containing the Avood-house, dairy and ice-house. The inconvenience
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