TREATMENT OF GROUND. FORMATION OF WALKS. 345 



i^rowth ;* and in the middle states, the Mackira, or Osage 

 Orange, is becoming a favorite for its glossy and polished 

 foliage. The Privet, or Prim, is a rapid growing shrub, 

 well fitted for interior divisions. Picturesque hedges are 

 easily formed by intermingling a variety of flowering 

 shrubs, sw^eet briers, etc., and allowing the whole to grow 

 together in rich masses. For this purpose the Michigan 

 rose is admirably adapted at the north, and the Cherokee 

 rose at the south. In all cases where hedges are employed 

 in the natural style of landscape (and not in close con- 

 nexion with highly artificial objects, buildings, etc.), a 

 more agreeable effect will be produced by allowing the 

 hedge to grow somewhat irregular in form, or varying it 

 by planting near it other small trees and shrubs to break 

 the outline, than by clipping it in even and formal lines. 

 Hedges may be obtained in a single season, by planting 

 long shoots of the osier willow, or any other tree which 

 throws out roots easily from cuttings. 



A simple and pleasing barrier, in good keeping with 

 cottage residences, may be formed of rustic work, as it is 

 termed. For this purpose, stout rods of any of our native 

 forest trees are chosen (Cedar being preferable) with the 

 bark on, six to ten feet in length ; these are sharpened and 

 driven into the ground in the form of a lattice, or wrought 

 into any figures of trellis that the T^ocy may cuggest. 

 When covered with luxuriant vines and climbinc- plants, 

 such a barrier is often admirable for its rici'.ness and 

 variety. 



» The Buckthorn is perhaps the best plant where a thick screen is very 

 speedily desired. It is not liable to the attack of insects ; grows very thickly 

 at the bottom, at once; and will make an efficient screen sooner than almost 

 ^ny other plant. 



