text:  * * * * * Let the plant have peace to _grow_ till it has acquired a considerable degree of natural strength--to acquire which state it will take a longer or shorter time according to the circumstances in which it is placed--acquiring it in the shortest time in deep sandy loam the most _useful_ of all soils and taking the longest in poor thin clay on a tilly subsoil--let it I say have peace to _grow_ and let it be afterwards judiciously pruned and I will give you the assurance of experience that you will possess an excellent fence and a beautiful hedge in a much shorter time than the usual practice of hedgers will warrant