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cia. If it were successful, it would be, when in bloom, 
a dream of beauty. Hemlock hedges are ever fine, 
as are hemlock trees everywhere, but will not bear 
too close clipping. Other evergreens, among them 
the varied Spruces, have been set in hedges, but 
French Homestead with old Stone Terrace, Kingston, Rhode Island. 
have not proved satisfactory enough to be much 
used. 
Buckthorn was a century ago much used for hedges 
and arches. When Josiah Quincy, President of 
Harvard College, was in Congress in 1809, he °b~ 
tained from an English gardener, in Georgetown, 
Buckthorn plants for hedges in his Massachusetts 
home, which hedges were an object of great beauty 
for many years. 
