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thorns, form hedges of ^reat strength and beauty. They are 

 indeed much better adapted to this climate than the Enghsh 

 Hawthorn, which often suffers from the unclouded radiance 

 of our mid-summer sun. In autumn, too, it loses its foliage 

 much sooner than our native sorts, some of which assume a 

 brilliant scarlet when the foliage is fading in autumn. In 

 New-England, the Buckthorn is preferred from its rapid and 

 luxuriant growth ; and in the southern states, the Madura, 

 or Osage Orange is becoming a favourite for its glossy and 

 polished foliage. The Privet or Prim, is a rapid growing 

 shrub, well fitted for interior divisions. Picturesque hedges 

 are easily formed by intermingling a variety of flowering 

 shrubs, sweet briers, etc., and allowing the whole to grow 

 together in rich masses. In all cases where hedges are em- 

 ployed in the natural style of landscape, (and not in close con- 

 nection with highly artificial objects, buildings, etc..) a more 

 agreeable eflfect will be produced by allowing the hedge to 

 grow somewhat irregular in form, or varying it by planting 

 near it other small trees and shrubs to break the outline, than 

 by clipping it in even and formal lines. Hedges may be ob- 

 tained in a single season by planting long shoots of the osier 

 willow or any other tree which throws out roots easily from 

 cuttings. 



A simple and pleasing barrier, in good keeping with cot- 

 tage residences, maybe formed of rustic tvork, as it is termed. 

 For this purpose, stout rods of any of our native forest trees 

 are chosen, with the ba'-k on, six to ten feet in length ; these 

 are sharpened and driven into the ground in the form of a 

 lattice, or wrought into any figures of trellis that the fancy 

 may suggest. When covered with luxuriant vines and climb- 

 ing plants, such a barrier is often admirable for its richness 

 and variety. 



