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Shakers, and could probably be procured tbrougb the agency of any seedsman. Its 

 bark and berries are powerful cathartics. Mixed with alum the sap of the berries 

 makes the color known to painters as sap-green, and the bark yields a fine yellow dye. 



Privet (Ligustimm vulgare). — Mr. Reid's Privet hedges are the best we have 

 seen ; he has planted them extensively near his house, where they grow freely and 

 make a truly beautiful spring, summer and fall hedge, leafing very early and retain- 

 ing the foliage until the end of the year, being in fact almost evergreen, and truly a 

 treasure. 



The Honey Locust {Gleditchia trtacanthos). — This plant Mr. Reid has always 

 considered the best for farm hedges, and we are disposed to agree with him ; after 

 twenty years trial he is satisfied that it is more easily kept and better adapted for a 

 fann fence than any thing that has yet been used. When properly cut it looks as 

 well us any deciduous hedge plant that is grown. When rapidity of growth and 

 economy are both desirable, plant them six inches apart in the row, and let them 

 grow four years without cutting ; then crop them all to a heighth of five feet, which 

 will produce a live fence of young trees ; with one cutting every year, though two 

 would be better, they will prove a protection for the life time of the owner. Planted 

 four inches apart they might prove a perfect defence for a long time without the 

 shears, but no hedge will long answer a good purpose of any kind without at least a 

 careful annual cutting. The Honey Locust we consider preferable to the Osage 

 Orange; in planting the seeds of each, care must be exercised to prevent the ravages 

 of mice. Both may be sown where they are to grow pennanently. 



Japan Quince (^Pyrus JaponiccC). — This beautiful plant grows very readily from 

 cuttings, and forms a superb hedge. Mr. Reid exhibits about four hundred feet of 

 it in the highest perfection, a portion of it well grown about four feet high ; it forms 

 not only one of the most beautiful flowering hedges, (there being very few hedge 

 plants that flower when cut,) but it is also one of the most valuable and close defences 

 of any plant yet tried. Interspersed with a few running roses, such as the Multiflora 

 or Prairie, it will produce the most ornamental of screens. No one who has not 

 seen it can properly estimate its great value. 



Beech, Hornbeam, and Hawthorn hedges may also be seen at Mr. Reid's in a 

 highly ornamental state, and each of these plants is deserving of attention. The 

 French employ them, as well as the Elm with great efiect. 



Arbor Vitje {Thuja occidentalls). — For an evergreen ornamental hedge, the 

 Arbor vitjB is extremely vakiable ; for a screen to protect particular plants of a 

 garden, a hot bed, &c., it has no I'ival; the American is the only one suitable for 

 this latitude and further north. It makes a superb hedge, and is of rapid growth ; 

 purchased young, it is economical. It is offered every spring, from Maine, at one 

 cent a plant for one year old seedlings, is easily removed from a distance, and, with 

 the single slight objection of its getting somewhat brown in mid-winter, is among 

 the most desirable for an American ornamental hedge. It will acquire great beauty 

 even without any use of the shears, and is altogether less troublesome than any 

 we know. Other Thujas, especially the Stricta are also valuable 



The Hemlock (^Pinus Canadensis). — Of all ornamental plants for this climate 



