IO HEDGES, WINDBREAKS, SHELTERS, ETC. 

 OSAGE ORANGE FENCES. 



Raising Plants. The seed can generally be 

 purchased of any seedsman. I soaked the seeds in 

 water for forty-eight hours before planting. When 

 treated thus they sprouted almost as freely as could 

 be desired. Those not soaked came up sparsely arid 

 very badly. 



The ground was prepared as for ordinary gar- 

 den seeds. The seed was placed in rows, about one 

 foot apart and about one inch deep. I kept the 

 plants carefully weeded from their first appearance 

 till the autumn. The result has been that plants 

 raised one spring are fit for setting out as hedges 

 the next spring. 



Preparing Ground for the Hedge. In the 

 autumn the line of the ground on which the hedge 

 is to stand is dug as a trench, about eighteen inches 

 wide and one foot deep. The earth is laid on the 

 side of the trench and the bottom broken with a pick. 

 In that condition I left it during the winter for the 

 frost to do its work. 



Cultivating or Tilling. In the spring when 

 the ground is warm enough to cause the plants to 

 show the first symptoms of life, by pushing, I put a 

 quantity of the best barnyard manure in the trench 

 or ditch, and on that placed the loose earth left lying 

 at the side during the winter. In this ground the 

 plants were placed. If in two rows, eighteen inches 

 apart ; if in one row, nine inches apart. The latter, 

 I am inclined to think from experience, is the best for 

 every purpose. 



The plants thus set out were kept carefully 



