558 Transactions of the American Institute. 



Osage Okange and Other Hedges. 



Mr. G. W. Pell, Jenkville — I would like to ask whether osage 

 will grow on wet land or not ; where I can get the seed, and what it 

 will cost a bushel. How much will it take for 100 rods ? 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — No ; osage orange will not succeed in wet soils. 

 The seed can be purchased at any of our large seed-stores. The price 

 is variable, some years much higher than others. A bushel contains 

 fifty to sixty thousand seed, and the plants should be set six to eight 

 inches apart. The gentleman can determine for himself how many 

 is required for 100 rods. 



Mr. William Curstead, Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa. — Will the 

 Club please inform me how to raise the common wild rose (the larger 

 kind) from the seed ? Also, if it has ever been used as a hedge plant ? 

 It is a vigorous grower (in our locality), perfectly hardy, and if it can 

 be raised from the seed I see no reason why it would not make a 

 fence. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller — Gather the seed-pods in autumn, as soon as ripe, 

 and put them into some vessel where water can be added, and allow 

 to remain there until the pulp is rotten. Then wash out the seed and 

 mix with sand, and bury where they will freeze during the winter. 

 Very few of the seed will germinate the following spring, therefore 

 there need be no haste about sowing. I have usually kept them in 

 sand until the autumn of the second season, and then sow in the open 

 ground. The following spring, if everything has gone aright, they 

 will grow readily and rapidly. If the gentleman thinks the wild rose 

 will make a good hedge let him try it. 



Chiccoey foe Hoeses. 



Mr. A. J. Hinds, Patchogue, L. I., wrote — Several years ago I 

 raised about 1,800 bushels of chiccory — a root our sandy soil is well 

 adapted to if highly manured. As the tops were very rank, I often 

 turned my horse in, and he needed no watching to keep off from good 

 clover and timothy growing in the same field. In winter I fed him 

 the trimmings of the roots. I had about one ton that was moldy 

 and unfit for market (not properly dried). I fed this to him next 

 summer in place of grain, with so much success that I think of trying- 

 it again for that purpose only. Have others tried it for that purpose % 

 If so, with what success ? How do you get lucerne to come up ? 

 How do you sow and what time of the year \ 



