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in the same earth,) and I forwarded them in a vessel to 
Salem. I did not reach home till ‘near the middle of 
May; and my son Henry, occupied in other business, 
and forgetting them, they remained in the box till about 
the 20th, when I opened it, and to my regret, found 
all the haws had not only sprouted, but sent out thin 
radicles so far, and were so entangled in the earth, that 
it was impossible to separate without destroying them ; 
so that out of perhaps two thousand or more, five plants 
only survived and grew. It was a satisfaction however 
to have the certainty that this sort of thorn, at least 
would grow the first spring. Holt said that in England 
the white thorn did not vegetate till the second. I men- 
tioned this fact to Mr. Main, a few days since. He ad- 
mitted that they would sometimes grow the first spring, 
but that sometimes they failed. 
Seven years ago, I told a relation in New-Hampshire, 
who, wanting rocks, was obliged to fence his fields 
with rails and boards, that he could form hedges in his 
light land even with white pine—which abounded.— 
The young trees (not crouded together) sent out long 
limbs near the ground, and regularly upwards, in a 
suitable slope ; they only required clipping to multiply 
the branches.—The European Larch (of which I have 
forty or fifty that are from four to six feet high, and 
many of which last year bore cones,) are admirably 
adapted for hedges. They send out numerous branches 
from their stems from the ground upward, and will grow 
well on poor land. Dr. Anderson, (third volume of his 
Essays on Agriculture,) says that they grow fastest in 
the poorest soil, and bleakest exposures. They may be 
pruned at any time in the summer; and such as I have 
