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Maclura. — You can grow Osage Orange, or any other hedge, by planting 

 the seeds where you want the hedge ; but the result will be far inferior to that 

 produced by planting seedlings of one year's growth. Buckthorns are better two 

 years old. To be perfect, a hedge must be uniform throughout, and this is 

 much more easily accomplished by setting plants than by sowing seed. It must 

 be set in a perfectly straight line, or it will always be an eyesore to you. If not 

 thick at the bottom it will be worthless ; and the only way to make it so is to 

 head it down in winter, and keep on until it is thick. The Osage Orange is 

 not quite hardy enough even for a hedge plant as far north as Boston. 



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