lOS On Live Fences. 



ces will be serviceable to them in any geometrical 

 figure. The branches of my trees growing perpendi- 

 cularly to the opposite hedge, have been annually prun- 

 ed off, that the others might interlock the sooner, so 

 that the trees are in the form of an espalier, embracing 

 the hedge, rising above it, and dropping their fruit on 

 the outside of the yard ; and with the hedge bestow up- 

 on horses, the luxuries of a shelter from a cold wind 

 and hot sun. 



August \st^ 1807> 



