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tion was not sufficiently paid to it. Nevertheless it has 

 a promising, and very healthy appearance ; and it has 

 shewn that it will bear neglect. I shall dress and shape 

 it wide at bottom, and tapering, so as to be narrow at 

 the top ; according to the mode recommended by Mr. 

 Maiii, of George town, Potomac. The juniper^ very 

 common through our country, is excellent for filling 

 the bottoms of live fences. It is hardy, prickly, grows 

 as fast as cedar or hemlock; spreads and keeps low ; and 

 stands cuttmg without the least injury. 



Beer quite as healthy, and much more agreeable than 

 that brewed with the Canada or Halifax spruce, is made 

 by the infusion of hemlock branches, with the materials 

 of which bur common spruce beer is composed. It 

 has been substituted for spruce, for many years in m} 

 family ; and we think it preferable in flavour to the Ca- 

 nada or Halifax spruce. 



Although as a substitute for thorn ^ I prefer the hem- 

 lock for fences or hedges, to any other of its kind, I do 

 not mean to depreciate the cedar ^ where hemlock cannot 

 be had; the former being more generally attainable. 

 I have planted great numbers of both ; and have had the 

 best luck with the hemlock. The spring is the best 

 season for planting resinous trees; and Mr. Taylor^ s 

 mode is superior to any other, for removing young 

 evergreens, of any kind or description.* 



* On the grounds of a college at Oxford (England J I be- 

 lieve Trinity College^ there is a whimsical idea executed. 

 A row of large trees are connected, by limbs engrafted. The 

 extreme of a limb of one tree, is engrafted into the stock of 

 the other ; and have thus joined the trees on a lon|j walk* 



