38° On Hedging. 
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can haw-thorn, which, after trying several others, seems 
to me to be the best adapted for hedges of any of the 
many different kinds of that plant which are natives of 
this country. It is one of the several maple leaved sorts; 
to which | have given the name of the American hedge- 
thorn ; any farther description is at present unneces- 
sary, as my former customers are now in possession of 
it, and those who intend to purchase can soon also have 
an opportunity of seeing it. For this plant the foregoing 
directions are more particularly adapted, although with 
a very little difference they will suit for the most part of 
plants used in hedging. 
THE PYRACANTHA OR EVERGREEN THORN, 
Is another plant, of which a few thousands are now 
on hand for sale the ensuing season. It is not a native 
of this country, but after a trial of several years it ap- 
pears to take well with the climate, and seems excel- 
lently adapted to form hedges. Being an evergreen, a 
hedge of it will be highly ornamental. When it comes 
to be about three or four years old it begins to bear 
fruit, and after that it is annually decorated with a pro- 
fusion of its bright scarlet coloured berries, the nume- 
rous clusters of which make a splendid appearance, from 
the beginning of September through the greater part 
of the winter. It is apt to run up to long slender and 
flexible shoots easy to be intwined at pleasure. It freely 
takes root by layers, for whenever any of the twigs lean 
upon the ground, or are but slightly covered with the 
soil, they will soon send out fibres, so that a single cion 
of it may quickly be made to cover a surface of ten or 
