3U AMERICAN GARDENER. 



keep it clean from weeds would require about 

 two days work in a year for five or six years : 

 twelve dollars more. To do the necessary clip- 

 ping during the same time, would require about 

 thirty dollars^ if it were done in an extraordinary 

 good manner, and with a pair of Garden Shears. 

 So that the expences to get a complete hedge 

 round the garden would be as follows : 



D. c. 



Plants 4 00 



Planting - - - 7 00 



Cultivation - - 12 00 



Clipping - - - 30 00 



Total - 53 00 



48. And thus are a fence, shelter and shade, 

 of everlasting duration, for a garden, containing 

 an acre of land, to be obtained for this trifling 

 sum ! Of the beauty of such a hedge it is im- 

 possible for any one, who has not seen it, to form 

 an idea: contrasted with a wooden, or even a 

 brick fence it is like the land of Canaan compar- 

 ed with the deserts of Arabia. The leaf is beauti- 

 ful in hue as well as in shape. It is one of the 

 very earliest in the spring. It preserves its 

 bright green during the summer heats. The 

 branches grow so thick and present thorns so 

 numerous, and those so sharp, as to make the 

 fence wholly impenetrable. The shelter it gives 

 in the early part of spring, and the shaded gives 

 (on the other side of the garden) in the heat 

 of summer, are so much more effectual than those 

 given by wood or brick or stone fences, that 

 there is no comparison between them. The 



