The Box Edging

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 4, 29 September 1933, Page 2

The Box Edging

NOW IS THE TIME TO TRIM ILThe special pygmy box that is usee as edgings in gardens is naturally dwarf and slow-growing. G™'™ 't should be—in bard, poor soil, and. kt in e Zlt cut- an edging which was promjrlvkiid down in the first place ought to remain in trim’ for a good many >C Evcn so. there conies a time when gaps show here and there, and iho edging gets too tall and stragglingThat gives the signal for a wholesale re-laying: it is very little use attempting to patch up gaps. From each yard run of the old edging you can easily get enough material to do three or four yards of the new. Lift the old plants with a stout digging fork. Shake all the soil from them, so that you are lefb with a mass of roots and tops. Then pull the plants to pieces and select the best—divisions with some tibrous roots attached cud some green sboot-s. This done, tike Ihe divisions to the chopping blocs and shorten both roots and tops with the chopper to make them a uniform length of about sin. . . . • Dig over Hie new planting pite, trend it firm and lay down a line where each row or oval or circle or square of the box is to go. Cut an even drill Sin. deep in the firm soil and relay the divisions close up to the side of the guiding line. Allow them just to interlock their leaves In the row. Tread firmly in on both sides of the drill—the firmer yon make the soil the more speedily will new roots be made.