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edge of the value of this tree for posts and timber, other than tliat stated by 

 '• A Subscriber." As a shade tree, we consider it among the best. It has a 

 large, dense head, is not easily broken by storms, and is free from injury by 

 insects. The tree is attracting some attention as a hedge plant, as the follow- 

 ing will show : 



Honey Locust Hedges. — Mr. Joseph Hoopes, one of the best pomologists 

 of Pennsylvania, writes to the New York Tribune in relation to the Honey 

 Locust as a hedge plant : 



" The Honey Locust differs from the Osage Orange, it being a stouter and less branching 

 hedge plant ; therefore to insure a perfectly formed, and, what is of the greatest impor- 

 tance, an impervious barrier, trim severely.while young and secure a thick growth at the 

 bottom ; or, as some of the growers insist upon doing, allow the young plants to grow at 

 will for a year or two, and tlien cut down to the ground, thus obtaining a stronger growth. 

 Knowing so well the benefits of the old system, so long tested and proven satisfactory, I 

 prefer to abide by it for the present. This branching from the ground is the most desirable 

 feature in the work, — in fact it is indispensable." 



