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shrub. It is very close-growing, and makes new 

 shoots so quickly that a clipping does not long 

 remain unpleasantly formal. In general that which 

 we wish of an ordinary hedge we do not wish of a 

 hedge planted only for ornament ; that is, we do not 

 require exact lines and precision of growth. But 

 where approximate accuracy and formality are 

 needed, the Tartarian honeysuckle is, above all 

 others, the plant that you need. 



Hedge growers, while learning to abhor the 

 monstrous and misplaced, may make hedge-growing 

 contribute to the general beauty of the place by such 

 contrivances as living arbors, bowered seats, and 

 arched walks. One of my living arbors, slightly 

 separated however, from the hedge rows, lifts its 

 peaks about twenty-five feet high, and inside is a cool 

 shaded enclosure of eighteen feet diameter. Origi- 

 nally intended to be a place to conceal a refuse pile, 

 I have found it more useful to use the enclosure as 

 a retreat. With seats and a hammock it becomes 

 delightful. The roots of the arbor-vitse create a dry 

 mat inside like the floor of evergreen woods. If left 

 to arch over a pathway, your hedges may easily give 

 a cool, arbor-like pathway. One of my own leads 

 to an enclosure, where is found a well, useful for 

 watering the grounds. Over the well is trained an 

 arbor of grapes. Hedges for screens are of great 

 importance. This is not to cover the disagreeable, 

 but to secure quiet nooks, places for hotbeds, and 

 enclosures for wells and reservoirs. These, as a 

 rule, are not what we can blend pleasantly into gen- 

 eral lawn work However, our wells may be so con- 

 structed with rock work as to be highly ornamental. 



