42 Facilitating the Growth of Thorn Hedges. 



any situation, and accommodates itself to the margin or to 

 the interior of woods ; creeping horizontally on the former, 

 or rising to considerable elevation in the latter situation. 



The next is the white, or haw, thorn. This well known 

 plant is fit to be exposed anywhere. Planted singly on lawns, 

 they are handsome objects ; and when in bloom are particu- 

 larly admired ; though at such time, of all others, the most 

 frightful to the landscape-painter ! Such conspicuous white 

 spots on the canvass would destroy the whole tone or keep- 

 ing of his piece. I mention this by the way, to show that a 

 fine landscape and a fine picture are not always the same 

 thing. For thickening or diversifying open groves, however, 

 the white thorn is invaluable ; as they grow tolerably well in 

 the shade of trees. The buckthorn may be used for the same 

 purpose, as well as the blackthorn, and all the sorts of the 

 dogrose. Furze, heath, and common broom are also suitable 

 undergrowths, and form a sweet and beautiful fringe to wood- 

 land at a proper distance from the mansion. But no plant 

 forms a better base to groups of trees than the common juni- 

 per ; it makes a fine back ground to the boles of such as stand 

 detached from the denser mass of the wood, and creeping 

 irregularly out on the lawn in separate patches, forms the 

 finest gradation from the surface of the ground to the lower 

 branches of the overhanging trees. 



{To be continued.) 



Art. Xr. On a Method of facilitating the Grotvth of Thorn Hedges 

 on high and exposed Situations. By Mr. D. Anderson. 



Sir, 



It has usually been considered difficult to obtain good quick 

 fences upon the high and open parts of the Wolds ; but since 

 the mode of planting in strips has been adopted, this difficulty 

 has been greatly overcome. 



Sir Henry Wright Wilson had an open farm at Kilham, 

 on the Yorkshire Wolds, which he desired me to divide and 

 enclose. I planted near twenty acres in stripes of 22 yards 

 wide, chiefly with larch, which divided the farm into fields of 

 from thirty to forty acres each. I planted a line of thorns on 

 both sides of the plantation ; then put down posts and three 

 rails on the outside. These posts and rails were kept up for 

 nearly ten years, during which time the ground about the 



