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feet high, and tlie tops bend over so as to make a beautiful appear- 

 ance. It is pricklj, and will make a good protection for orchards 

 and fruit gardens, as the wicked boys could not climb over it, and 

 should they attempt to go through, they would get more scratches 

 than they bargained for. It need not be guarded from cattle, as they 

 do not care for it as an article of diet. Suppose a man wishes to divide 

 his pasture, let him plow one furrow and sow in it three rows of bar- 

 berries about three inches apart, Tliis will take from tliree to six to a 

 lineal foot, and one bushel, which in this vicinity will cost one dollar, 

 wnll be sufficient for thirty rods of hedge. As the berries usually 

 contain two seeds, I suppose that, planted as above, the hedge would 

 be sufficiently dense ; but if not so, let it be cut down when two or 

 three years old, and then the roots will send up shoots, and in this 

 way the hedge may be made as wide and thick as desired. There is 

 no danger of its spreading from tlie roots unless the tops are cut. 

 There is a bush in this town which I set twenty years ago, and it has 

 not spread an inch. As the cattle would root out some of the plants, 

 let the man sow a nursery of the berries, and when the hedge is 

 sufficiently grown, then fill in the vacancies from the nursery, taking 

 care to protect the newly set bushes till they are well rooted. In 

 this way a farmer can obtain a cheap fence, which will last forever, 

 for I know of no way to kill the barberry busli but to dig up its roots. 

 Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I said ten years ago that barberry is the best 

 hedge plant in America. It is better, however, to sow in nursery 

 and transplant, than to sow in tlie hedge direct. As to the old preju- 

 dice against it that it blasts wheat, I don't believe it altogetlier. Yet 

 it is true that a fungus on the bush resembles the fungus on wheat, 

 and some seasons one may become the other. 



How TO Have Dry Cellars. 

 Mr. S. Ilerrick, Oberlin, Ohio, having observed the consideration 

 given to this subject in the Club, gave an acco.unt of how he man- 

 aged : I made a cellar during the past season, which answers a good 

 purpose. I did not excavate at all, simply leveled the ground. To 

 prevent dampness, mildew, &c., a few inches above the external grad- 

 ing I left an opening in the wall four by eight inches, Avhich is cov- 

 ered with wire-cloth. From the wall overliead I extended a ventila- 

 ting tube of the same size some ten feet to the ridge of the house. 

 Except in very cold weather the ventilators are open, which gives a. 

 constant current of air through the cellar. This contrivance is very 

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