OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



a large scale for hedges. The green walks of 

 the gardens of Versailles demonstrate amply 

 what its European congener will suffer in way 

 of clipping. 



In the way of evergreen hedge-plants we 

 have nothing to ask for from the nurserymen 

 of Great Britain. Both the arbor-vitae and the 

 hemlock spruce are admirably adapted to the 

 purpose. The beauty of this latter nothing 

 can exceed, particularly in the season of its 

 first growth (early June), when its flossy light 

 green tufts hang over it like a great shower of 

 golden bloom. The arbor-vitse is perhaps more 

 manageable, and certainly less impatient of 

 removal ; but it can never become so effective. 

 The Norway spruce is also admirably adapted 

 to hedge uses, and will bear (if treated early) 

 the closest clipping of the shears. The grand 

 error in its employment hitherto has been in 

 allowing it to gain some three or four feet 

 in height before resorting to the clipping pro- 

 cess. 



In fact, the general failure of our hedge ex- 

 periments throughout the country— whether 

 for service or ornamentation— may be summed 

 up in one word, a lack of care. Farmers have 

 bought hedge-plants by the thousand, and 

 plowing a single furrow or two along the lines 



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