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Dr. E. G. Mygatt, of Kenosha County, Wis., in a letter dated Dec. 
*®7S> stating his views in regard to the beneficial results derived 
from the planting of timber-belts, says : 
“ It would pay you to see the protection to my orchard during the past seven- 
teen years. Only one tree has died behind my wind-break out of one hundred 
and twenty trees, now about twenty years old, and some of them of tender kinds.” 
Gardeners who have their hot-beds sheltered with post and board 
fence^ will find it advantageous to closely plant one or two rows of 
Scotch Pine and Norway Spruce at a distance of about four or five feet 
from, and on the East, North and West sides of their fences. If the 
Evergreens are planted at, or soon after the time of the building of 
the fences, the growth of the Evergreens, after becoming established, 
IS SO rapid that they will afford an excellent protection by the time 
^e post and board fences would require renewal. The cost of the 
Evergre^ shelter would not only be less, but would be more perma- 
nent, and more ornamental than the board fences usually constructed 
for the purpose of shelter. 
Two or three rows of closely planted Evergreens will be more ef- 
fective in breaking or impairing the force of cold winter winds than 
twenty roAvs of deciduous trees which have only their naked stems 
and branches to offer as a resistance. The plants- for the Evergreen 
timber-belts will cost less in the price of plants, cost of boxes, pack- 
ing, and freight charges, occupy less breadth of land, and cost less 
labor in planting ; besides being more ornamental than the deciduous: 
trees from the fact that the Evergreens retain their foliage throughout, 
the whole year. 
ARBOKVITiE HEDGE. 
