On Hedging. Al 
tation, both pyracantha and honey locust survived it, 
and are now (September, 1807,) in a very thriving. con- 
dition. The intention of this mixture is to have the,bot- 
*tom of the hedge perfectly closed by the pyracantha, 
and the body of it strengthened by the honey locust ; 
hoth together may be expected to present such a thorny 
mass of paighated resistance as will preclude all intru- , 
sion. 
Perhaps if I had planted two distinct hedges, one of 
the pyracantha eighteen inches plant from plant, and 
another of the honey locust, about five feet outside of 
the other, also at eighteen inches apart, it might haye 
been still better. 
It is not my present intention to persuade any person. 
into the notion of hedging, or to use any arguments for 
that purpose ; such recommendation would come with 
a better grace from any other person than from one who 
is in the habit of raising quicks for sale, and is con- 
sequently interested in disposing of them. It may, how- 
ever, be allowable for me to say, that this mode of fenc- 
ing, whenever it is practised in the United States, will 
contribute its share to give an orderly and systematic 
turn to our plans of rural policy, conducive to a perma- 
nent neatness and regularity among arrangements that 
are commonly in a continual state of confusion and 
change. 
It can scarcely be expected that CSE or over- 
seers generally will be advocates for the introduction of 
live fences. ‘T’o look for this, would be to look for more 
than human nature can afford, for who would volunta- 
rily seek additional care and trouble, with an additional 
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