On the Growth of White Thorn. 43 



A List of the Specimens sent. 



No. 1. consists of four specimens of roots, which were 

 planted the. latter end of April, 1S04; two with only one 

 shoot a-piece, and two with several. 



No. 2. consists of two specimens of the best one-year-old 

 seedlings I could select out of 40,000 I purchased this 

 spring, which in fact are two years old from the time the 

 haws were gathered 5 for they generally remain one year in 

 the ground before they vegetate. 



No. 3. consists of two specimens of roots, planted the 

 latter end of April, 1803, which have not been moved 

 before since they were first planted ; one with only one 

 shoot, and the other with several. 



No. 4. consists of the best two-<year-old seedlings which 

 I have been able to procure. 



No. 5. consists of two specimens of roots, planted the 

 latter end of April, 1802, which I was obliged to remove 

 the spring after I first planted them ; this of course retarded 

 their growth, by having fresh roots to make. These speci- 

 mens are pruned in the way I always prune thorns when \ 

 plant them in my fences; the roots, you may see, are cut, 

 and the top I should have cut at the mark you will find about 

 four or five inches above the root, and shortened the branches 

 below that mark, to about three inches from the stem. I 

 have attached to each specimen the roots I pruned from it, 

 cut into such lengths as I should have done had I used the 

 thorns myself. I think one produced sixteen and the other 

 twenty-two; but that you will be able to judge of when you 

 see them. 



No. 6. consists of the best three-year-old seedlings I 

 could set ; but both No. 4. and No. 6. labour under the same 

 inconvenience as No. 2, from the haws remaining in the 

 ground generally one year before they vegetate. 



VI \. On 



