^ On Hedging, 



can haw- thorn, which, after trying several others, seems 

 to me to be the best adapted for hedges of any of the 

 many different kinds of that plant which are natives of 

 this country. It is one of the several maple leaved sorts, 

 to which 1 have given the name of the American hedge- 

 thorn ; any farther description is at present unneces- 

 sary, as my former customers are now in possession of 

 it, and those who intend to purchase can soon also have 

 an opportunity of seeing it. For this plant the foregoing 

 directions are more particularly adapted, although with 

 a very little difference they will suit for the most part of 

 plants used in hedging. 



THE PYRACANTHA OR EVERGREEN THORN, 



Is another plant, of which a few thousands are now 

 on hand for sale the ensuing season. It is not a native 

 of this country, but after a trial of several years it ap- 

 pears to take well with the climate, and seems excel- 

 lently adapted to form hedges. Being an evergreen, a 

 hedge of it will be highly ornamental. When it comes 

 to be about three or four, years old it begins to bear 

 fruit, and after that it is annually decorated with a pro- 

 fusion of its bright scarlet coloured berries, the nume- 

 rous clusters of which make a splendid appearance, from 

 tlie beginning of September through the greater part 

 of the winter. It is apt to run up to long slender and 

 flexible shoots.easy to be intwined at pleasure. It freely 

 takes root by layers, for whenever any of the twigs lean 

 upon the ground, or are but slightly covered with the 

 soil, they will soon send out fibres, so that a single cion 

 of it may quickly be made to cover a surface of ten or 



