Locust (Honey). 



after planting. If all be done well, the trees, without 

 being cut down, which they ought not to be till they 

 have stood a year, will make good shoots, and will 

 particularly increase in size of stem. The next spring ; 

 that is to say, after they have stood a year, you cut 

 them down close to the ground. Each will then send up 

 three or four stout shoots. Whenth^se have grown through 

 the summer, take out any little weak shoots close to the 

 stem, and cut down the stout ones to within three or four 

 inches of the ground. Out of these stems will now come 

 such quantities of shoots, that the fence will be complete 

 in a very short time, and only want trimming, clipping 

 and the like, according to your fancy. The whole of the 

 space, between the two rows, will be filled up by side 

 shoots; and the hedge will be quite impassable by any 

 animal bigger, at any rate, than a rat or a cat. It would 

 remain quite undisturbed ; for nobody and nothing, made 

 of flesh and blood, would attempt to assail it; and, besides 

 all the rest, the foliage is so very fine, that even as an orna- 

 ment, it would be desirable to have it in a hedge. Our 

 hawthorns are very beautiful ; in loose hedges they have 

 bloom as well as leaf; but we have to set against this the 

 early fading of their leaves, their great liability to be at- 

 tacked and devoured by caterpillars, and all the ugliness, 

 and indeed injury, arising from that circumstance. Now, 

 the leaf of the Honey Locust is attacked by no insect, and 

 its green is as fresh in August as it is in May. As a plant 

 to form a hedge, this surpasses all others, and for that use 

 I strongly recommend it, and hope to see it become of very 

 general use. 



