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growth ;* and in the middle states, the Maclura, or Osage 
Orange, is becoming a favorite 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 con- 
nexion with highly artificial objects, buildings, etc.), a 
more agreeable 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 obtained in a single season, by planting 
long shoots of the osier willow, or any other tree which 
throws out roots easily from cuttings. 
A simple and pleasing barrier, in good keeping with 
cottage residences, may be formed of rustic work, as it is 
termed. For this purpose, stout rods of any of our native 
forest trees are chosen (Cedar being preferable) with the 
bark on, six to ten feet in length ; these are sharpened and 
driven into the ground in the form of a lattice, or wrought 
into any figures of trellis that the fancy may suggest. 
When covered with luxuriant vines and climbing plants, 
such a barrier is often admirable for its richness and 
variety. 
* 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. 
