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and especially valuable for hedges. It requires considerable 

 care to keep it in perfect form and should be severely 

 headed in at planting to make it throw up numerous shoots 

 at the base, without which a good hedge cannot be made. 

 It is not a shrub that will bear as close pruning as some 

 others, but if allowed to take a natural bushy form it 

 is very beautiful in flower and has a rich dark green 

 foliage. 



HONEY-LOCUST (Gleditchia triacantJios). None of our 

 deciduous trees makes a hedge that is sure to turn animals 

 or the small boy so effectually as this, when properly 

 treated. As with most trees or large-growing shrubs, severe 

 pruning is required to give them the strong growth of 

 numerous branches at the base, and then each succeeding 

 year if it be cut back from six inches to one foot longer than 

 the last it soon forms a dense mass of strong shoots near the 

 ground, covered with numerous branching spines. 



JAPAN ROSE (Rosa multiflora). This very strong grow- 

 ing rose promises to become a valuable hedge-plant. On 

 account of its vigor of growth and the numerous spines it 

 will turn animals, fruit-thieves, or other trespassers, and is 

 ornamental in flower and fruit. In habit of growth it is 

 compact, thrives in very poor soil, and as yet has never 

 been injured by cold in the vicinity of Amherst and other 

 sections of Massachusetts. 



PRIVET (Ligustrum vulgare). A neat, compact shrub, 

 that stands pruning perhaps quite as well as anything we 

 have. The same treatment as given for the Japan quinces 

 and other hedge-plants is needed as to early formation of 

 lateral branches. Old hedges of this species that have lost 

 their lower branches or that have grown many years at the 

 top only may be renovated by cutting down to within 6 to 



