On Hedges* 



in the same earth,) and I forwarded them in a vessel to 

 Salem. I did not reach home till near the middle of 

 May ; and my son Henry, occupied in other business, 

 and forgetting them, they remained in the box till about 

 the 20th, when I opened it, and to my regret, found 

 all the haws had not only sprouted, but sent out thin 

 radicles so far, and were so entangled in the earth, that 

 it was impossible to separate without destroying them ; 

 so that out of perhaps two thousand or more, five plants 

 only survived and grew. It was a satisfaction however 

 to have the certainty that this sort of thorn, at least 

 would grow the first spring. Holt said that in England 

 the white thorn did not vegetate till the second. I men^ 

 tioned this fact to Mr. Main, a few days since. He ad- 

 mitted that they would sometimes grow the first spring, 

 but that sometimes they failed. 



Seven years ago, I told a relation in New-Hampshire, 

 who, wanting rocks, was obliged to fence his fields 

 with rails and boards, that he could form hedges in his 

 light land even with white pine — which abounded. — • 

 The young trees (not crouded together) sent out long 

 limbs near the ground, and regularly upwards, in a 

 suitable slope ; they only required clipping to multiply 

 the branches. — The European Larch (of which I have 

 forty or fifty that are from four to six feet high, and 

 many of which last year bore cones,) are admirably 

 adapted for hedges. They send out numerous branches 

 from their stems from the ground upward, and will grow 

 well on poor land. Dr. Anderson, (third volume of his 

 Essays on Agriculture,) says that they grow fastest in 

 the poorest soil, and bleakest exposures. They may be 

 pruned at anv time in the summer ; ^nd such as I have 



