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cia. If it were successful, it would be, when in bloom, 

 a dream of beauty. Hemlock hedges are ever fine, 

 as are hemlock trees everywhere, but will not bear 

 too close clipping. Other evergreens, among them 

 the varied Spruces, have been set in hedges, but 



French Homestead with old Stone Terrace, Kingston, Rhode Island. 



have not proved satisfactory enough to be much 

 used. 



Buckthorn was a century ago much used for hedges 

 and arches. When Josiah Quincy, President of 

 Harvard College, was in Congress in 1809, ne °^~ 

 tained from an English gardener, in Georgetown, 

 Buckthorn plants for hedges in his Massachusetts 

 home, which hedges were an object of great beauty 

 for many years. 



