Trimming Evergreen Hedges

The Gernvintown, Pa. , Telegrafm sny ■' that perhaps in no part of tbc country ü Las so niuoh careful study beengivento the subject of the trimming of 1 givens as in Germantewn. Evergreen hedges ure ger.erly employed and cessfully managed there. On the i '■ ject of the propetfffcae of the year tu tr.iu CHir cotemporary says : The axioui that Kummer pruning - weakens and Winter pruning ' ens, sceirts to bo particularly adapted to ■ evergreens, ii not so materially elsewhere, ' It is fund that whilu the hedge ia i OU8 and seoms to want to get up to bo a ] tree as rapidly as possible, is the time to trim it. Tuis somewhat weakt-ns each 1 succeeding annual growth, and in time ' the hedge geta to a pitch whon there is 1 no gieat desire to giow up to trees, but ] is satisfied to be in the proper hedge dition. Oae of our most successiul 1 hfidge managers tells ns that af ter this, if 1 the late pruning is c.jntinued, the hede is almost sure to go backward ; and he aUributed the cases of prematuro decay ■which once in a while occur in our ' mantown hedges, to continuous latí; pruning after a muek and hamble disposiUon I has been gained for the tifdge His idea is and hiss suocess warnuits a fttitb in his opinión,, thut the unuual pruning of a hedge should be some days earlit-r every year, beginning while very youiig and vigorous, just itter the young growth has fuHy erpanded, until at'ter n doïen years or more it rmty lie weeks before the buds push into growth. These facts are valnable. They shovv that as we may say of uatkny other operations of gardening, there is uo rule as to Xiet time, or b( st treatment. So niuch depends on circurastanoes. But unfortunately so many puople do not understand principies. There must be ralea for the mivjority of people, and he who can get the neaiest to laying down a general rule of couduct stands the best chanco of gotting canonizad for his virtues. In this matter ei hedge pruning some few will be able to imderstund the principie and act on it without reilucing it to rule ; bttt for tli ose who cunnot tliiitk and act this way, thu " short and easy " rule presents itself, as the hedge grows, cut a trine earlier avery.year.