94 THE FLORIST AND 
Roberts, Elwjn, Biddle, Spangler, Newton, Willits and Ingersoll, was 
amended by Mr. Roberts, and passed finally in the following form, 
Resolved, By tbe Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, that in 
their opinion an exhibition by the United States Agricultural Society might 
be advantageously held at Philadelphia, and that a committee of three be 
appointed to confer with the President of the United States Agricultural 
Society, and the Executive Committee of the State Society on the subject. 
On motion, that the President be chairman of the committee, and that he 
appoint his colleagues, which was so ordered. The committee consists of 
Messrs. Landreth, Biddle and Newton. 
H. Ingersoll, Esq., called up his resolution proposed at preceding meeting, 
to strike out 19th By-Law, which now renders the President ineligible for 
more than two years, which resolution after much discussion was lost. 
S. H. Austin, Esq., called attention to a tract of 204 acres above German- 
town, which had been purchased by a number of gentlemen, with the inten- 
tion of building a large hotel thereon. He believed that this society would 
fiind it advantageous to hold the annual exhibitions there in future, and 
doubted not that highly favorable terms might be made with the proprietors, 
whereupon 
Dr. J. A. McCrea, moved that a committee of three be appointed to 
examine the above ground, the terms on which it can be used, &c., and 
report at next meeting, which was carried, and Messrs. McCrea, Blight, and 
Sheridan, were appointed the committee. 
The chair introduced to the meeting, Dr. John A. Warder, of Cincinnati, 
who delivered a brief and interesting address on the subject of hedges. He 
confined himself to the 31aclura or Osage Orange, a plant which he deemed 
especially adapted to the purpose of hedging, in this country. The subject 
was one of immense importance, especially to the west, where timber was 
scarce and land cheap, and where thousands of miles of these hedges were 
being set. For land worth more than $100 per acre and in fields of less 
than twenty acres, hedges were not to be recommended. Hedge planting 
in America had been a series of failures not to be contended on account of 
the climate, for the Madura was indigenous to this country, but from 
injudicious planting and treatment, planting too close, too near to a dead 
fence, want of cultivation and of sufficiently severe pruning. These were 
the causes of failures, and his method was designed to avoid them, tie 
subsoiled and planted one foot apart. The following spring he cut off all 
the vertical branches three inches from the ground, barely trimming the 
lateral ones at their ends. The next year he repeated the cutting at the 
