10 On the planting, priming and management 



vicinity". From Dr. Ward our readers may look for a paper on 

 the acclimization of plants in the course of the present volume. 



We have thus given an imperfect sketch of the advancement 

 of gardening during the past year. It will convey to our readers 

 some idea of what has been effected. Our friends may feel grati- 

 fied and encouraged, that, during such a year as the past, garden- 

 ing has not been checked and retarded in a much greater degree. 

 If the science has not lost a single votary, it has succeeded well: 

 w^ith the change of times and the consequent revival of business 

 we may expect renewed efforts; and the loss of a season will be 

 more than made up by the zeal which will undoubtedly be here- 

 after manifested by the amateurs and lovers of gardening. 



Art. II. On the planting, pruning, and management of Buck- 

 thorns for Hedges or Live Fences. By J. W. Russell, Su- 

 perintendent at Mount Auburn. 



Those persons who are desirous of obtaining, at the least 

 possible expense, a good and durable fence around either gardens 

 or farms, I would advise to give the preference to the buckthorn 

 over any other kind of shrubs or plants that may have been re- 

 commended to them for this purpose, at least in this part of 

 America. In the first place no kind of cattle have been known 

 to feed on it; the field-mouse, that has been so destructive to 

 trees through the winter months, of late years, never has molest- 

 ed it; no kind of borers or worms have as yet been known to 

 feed on either roots or branches. It is also a very hardy plant, 

 for it is seldom or never injured by the severity of our winters. 

 It Is naturally of a shrubby compact growth; therefore the better 

 adapted for hedges than any other native plant within my knowl- 

 edge. The fact is, that it might, with no impropriety that I am 

 aware of, be termed the New England haicthorn; for I think, 

 ere long, it will be as universally used throughout the United 

 States, for live fences, as the hawthorn is in the north of England. 

 The plants can be obtained at any of the nurseries near Boston, 

 from two to three years old, and the cost will be from three to 

 five dollars the hundred. I wish it to be borne in mind, that 

 plants of the age just mentioned, should always be selected in 

 preference to those of larger growth. 



In the spring of the year, as early as the frost leaves the 



