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the greatest confidence that it will fully serve the purpose for uhlch it has 

 been so eminently designed. 



WILLTAM STOMS, 

 M. M. WILLIAMS, 

 M. HAZEX WHITE. 



CiNCiNXATi, Tuesday, May 27, 1856. 



William Stoms, Esq.— Dear Sir: I have just received your note of 

 yesterday, propounding some questions with regard to the utility of the 

 Osage Orange as a hcd^ge plant. It is now eighteen years since this 

 subject first attracted my attention, and since that time not a year has 

 passed without my having planted more or less. ^Sly first impressions 

 were decidedly favorable to it, above all other plants. My experience 

 since has more and more confirmed this opinion. Indeed, I consider 

 the Madura of incalculable value to our agricultural country for fenc- 

 ing. The great distrust in the plant for the purpose has arisen from a 

 want of knowledge and neglect in its cultivation. This has been gen- 

 eral, and I do not incline to relieve myself from a full share. The very 

 greatest mistake has been from setting the plants too far apart. They 

 ought to he in a single row, and not more than four inches apart. The 

 advocates of wider setting, from their respectability and influence, are, 

 in my opinion, doing a great injury, and I think that further experi- 

 ence will convince them of their error. 



The last winter has done injury to all the live fences, but I think 

 they will very generally recover from it. It was of unparalleled sever- 

 ity, and we may never see such another. I see no reason for discoura- 

 ging its cultivation from the effects of the severe winter upon it, and I 

 hop'e the society will not lend its influence in that direction. 



I view this subject as of vast importance, and did I think I could 

 contribute anything to the information of the society that could be use- 

 ful, I would expatiate freely. Yours sincerely, 



^ WILLIAM NEFF. 



Ants.— We liave lately heard several persons complain of the injury 



done to young trees and plants by ants. For their benefit we would 



say that they may be easily destroyed by mixing a small quantity of 



arsenic with white sugar, placed on an orange peel, and put withm 



their reach. They will eat it freely and perish. 



Western Agriculturist. 



