TREATMENT OP GROUND. FORMATION OP WALKS. 317 
The common Arbor Vitce , (or flat Cedar,) which grows in 
great abundance in many districts, forms one of the most 
superb hedges, without the least care in trimming ; the 
foliage growing thickly, down to the very ground, and 
being evergreen, the hedge remains clothed the whole year. 
Our common Thorns, and in particular those known in the 
nurseries as the Newcastle and Washington thorns, form 
hedges of great strength and beauty. They are indeed 
much better adapted to this climate than the English Haw- 
thorn, which often suffers from the unclouded radiance of 
our midsummer sun. In autumn, too, it loses its foliage 
much sooner than our native sorts, some of which assume a 
brilliant scarlet when the foliage is fading in autumn. In 
New-England, the Buckthorn is preferred from its rapid and 
luxuriant growth ;* and in the southern states, the Maclura, 
or Osage Orange, is becoming a favourite for its glossy and 
polished foliage. The Privet or Prim, is a rapid growing 
shrub, well fitted for interior divisions. Picturesque hedges 
are easily formed by intermingling a variety of flowering 
shrubs, sweet briers, etc., and allowing the whole to grow 
together in rich masses. For this purpose the Michigan rose, 
is admirably adapted at the north, and the Cherokee rose at 
the south. In all cases where hedges are employed in the 
natural style of landscape, (and not in close connection 
with highly artificial objects, buildings, etc.,) a more agree- 
able effect will be produced by allowing the hedge to grow 
somewhat irregular in form, or varying it by planting near 
it other small trees and shrubs to break the outline, than by 
clipping it in even and formal lines. Hedges may be ob- 
* The Buckthorn is perhaps the best plant where a thick screen is very speedily 
desired. It is not liable to the attack of insects, grows very thickly at the bottom, 
at once, and will make an efficient screen sooner than almost any other plant. 
