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Nation, both pyracantha and honey locust survived it, 

 and are now (September, 1807,) in a very thriving con- 

 dition. The intention of this mixture is to have the bot- 

 tom of the hedge perfectly closed by the pyracantha, 

 and the body of it strengthened by the honey locust ; 

 both together may be expected to present such a thorny 

 mass of entangled resistance as will preclude all intra- 

 aion. 



Perhaps if I had planted two distinct hedges, one of 

 the pyracantha eighteen inches plant from plant, and 

 another of the honey locust, about five feet outside of 

 the other, also at eighteen inches apart, it might have 

 been still better. 



It is not my present intention to persuade any person 

 into the notion of hedging, or to use any arguments for 

 that purpose ; such recommendation would come with 

 a better grace from any other person than from one who 

 is in the habit of raising quicks for sale, and is con- 

 sequently interested in disposing of them. It may, how- 

 ever, be allowable for me to say, that this mode of fenc- 

 ing, whenever it is practised in the United States, will 

 contribute its share to give an orderly and systematic 

 turn to our plans of rural policy, conducive to a perma- 

 nent neatness and regularity among arrangements that 

 are commonly in a continual state of confusion and 

 change. 



It can scarcely be expected that gardeners or over- 

 seers generally will be advocates for the introduction of 

 live fences. To look for this, would be to look for more 

 than human nature can afford, for who would volunta- 

 rily seek additional care and trouble, with an additional 



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