36 On Hedges. 
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practice to introduce trees ntothem. And Lord Kaims 
expressly says, he never saw a good hedge in England. 
Mr. Bordley handsomely compliments the planters 
of some hedges in the Delaware state. They probably 
made a good appearance when young : but I have seen 
them repeatedly within the last six years; and in my 
eye they possess neither beauty nor efficiency. They 
consisted, in fact, of thorn trees twelve or fifteen feet 
high, with bushy tops and naked stems, and gaps in- 
numerable. In that condition I viewed them as nui- 
sances. They occupied much ground, and required 
many posts and rails, (which, shaded and long remaining 
wet with rains, would soon become rotten,) to fill the 
gaps. Within two or three years past, the proprietors 
of some of those hedges have found some labourers, 
(I believe English hedgers) who have plashed and top- 
ped the trees; and interweaving them with the stems 
and stakes, haye made good fences for so long time as 
the dead wood will last. 
Mr. Main, in his pamphlet, refers to M‘Mahon’s 
directions for raising thorns from haws—a process re- 
quiring a preparation of a year and a half prior to the 
“sowing of the haws. But in the autumn of 1807, in con- 
versing with an English gardener, here, (Theophilus 
Holt,) I found that the haws would vegetate the first 
spring. He showed me a bed of seedings which had 
grown from the haws of 1806. I desired him to gather 
me a quantity of haws of the hedge thorn cultivated by 
Mr. Main, (they are to be found scattered in every part 
of the city) which you call crategus cordata, and to mix 
them with earth and keep them until the ensuing spring. 
Then he sent them to me in a box (remaining mingled 
