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p. - had purchased. The thorns I purchased were three years 



white thorn ^^^d when I got them. In April 1802, I had occasion to 

 successfully move a fence, from which I procured as many roots of 

 from cuttinffs thorns as made me upwards of two thousand cuttings, of 

 of the roots, which I did not lose five in the hundred. 



In the spring of 1803, I likewise planted as many cut- 

 tings of thorn roots as I could get. In 1804, I did the 

 same ; and this year I shall plant many thousands. 



I have sent for your inspection specimens of the pro- 

 duce of 1802, 1803, and 1804, raised after my method, 

 with the best I could get of those raised from haws in the 

 common way, Avhich generally lie one year in the ground 

 before they vegetate. They are all exactly one, two, 

 , and three years old, from the day they were planted. I 



was so pleased with my success in raising so valuable an 

 article to the farming interest of this kingdom, at so 

 trifling an expense, (for it is merely that of cutting the 

 roots into lengths and planting them,) that I was deter- 

 mined to make it known to the world, and could think of 

 no better method than communicating it to your Society; 

 and should you so far approve of this method of raising 

 thorns, as to think me entitled to any honorary reward, I 

 shall receive it with gratitude, but shall feel myself amply 

 repaid for any trouble I have been at, should you think 

 it worthy a place in the next volume of your Trans- 

 actions. 



The method of raising the thorns from roots of the 

 plant, is as follows : 



I would advise every farmer to purchase a hundred or 

 a thousand thorns, according to the size of his farm, and 

 plant them in his orchard or garden^ and when they have 

 attained the thickness of my three-year-old specimens, 

 which is the size I always prefer for planting in fences, 

 let him take them up and prune the roots in the manner 

 I have pruned the specimen sent you, from which he will 

 upon an average get ten or twelve cuttings from each 

 plant, which is as good as thorns of the same thickness ; 

 so that you will easily perceive that in tUree years he wi^ 

 have a succession of plants fit for use, which he may if he 

 pleases increase ten-fold every time he take* them up^ 

 The spring (say in all April) is the best time to plant 



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