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always be the rule to take the strig with it entire, if 

 possible. This is of the greatest importance where 

 fruit is kept through the winter, because if taken from 

 it, the rind is broken where it was united to the pulp, 

 and at that place it will begin to decay, when closely 

 confined, and hence soon communicate the rot to 

 others, and so on until the whole is infected. 



ART* 2. -Planting Live Fences. 



When land is to be divided or enclosed for fruit 

 gardens or orchards, it may be effected by planting 

 live fences of different varieties of woody plants ; 

 but those of a dwarf thorny nature are found to an- 

 swer the best purpose in most cases, being more 

 proper to guard against cattle and other intruders, 

 than those without armature. 



The plants used' for such purpose, are those vari- 

 eties which are found to thrive well in different parts 

 of the states, and if natives the better, being more 

 hardy and better able to withstand the changes natu- 

 ral to the climate. The European hawthorn is 

 perhaps the best plant for this purpose, although it 

 does not answer equally well in all parts of the 

 country. In the New England States, particularly, 

 this plant is liable to be destroyed by mildew and 

 the borer ; but in the state of New York, it does 

 much better. The buckthorn, or Rhamnus ca- 

 tharticus of Linnaeus, is now much planted in New 

 England, and answers the purpose admirably well. 

 To this may be added the Shepardia eleagnoides (of 

 Nuttal), or Buffalo tree, which I am inclined to 

 think, when it has had a more general trial, will su- 



