32 AMERICAN GARDENER. 



must still be kefit clijified twice in the summer , 

 and that, therefore, if the fence is everlasting, 

 the trouble of it is also everlasting*. But, in 

 the first place, you can have nothing good from 

 t ic earth without annual care. In the next 

 pLice, a wooden fence will soon want nailing 

 anrl patching annually, during the years of its 

 comparatively short duration. And, lastly, 

 what is the annual expense of clipping, when 

 you have got your hedge to its proper height 

 and width, and when the work may be done 

 with a Long-handled hook instead of a pair of 

 shears, which is necessary at first ? In England 

 such work is done for a fienny a rod, twice in 

 the summer. Allow three times as much in 

 America, and then the annual expense of the 

 garden hedge will be less thanybwr dollars a 

 yeur. 



51. Thus then, at the end of the first twen- 

 ty years, the hedge would have cost a hundred 

 and nine dollars. And, for ever after, it would 

 cost only eighty dollars in twenty years. Now, 

 ca i a neat, boarded fence, if only eight feet 

 high, and to last twenty years, be put up 

 for less than nx dollars a rod ? I am convin- 

 ced that it cannot ; and, then, here is an ex- 

 pense for every twenty years, of three hundred 

 and forty eight dollars. A Locust fence, I al- 

 low, will last for ever ; but, then, what will 

 a fence all of Locust, cost ? Besides the differ- 

 ence in the look of the thing; besides the vast, 

 difference in the nature and effect ,of the shelter 

 and the shade ; and besides, that, after all, you 

 have, in the wooden fence, no effectual protec- 

 tion against invaders, 



