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On the Growth of White Thorn . 
The reason why I prefer spring to autumn for plant- 
ing the roots, is, that were they to be planted in autumn, 
they would not have got sufficient hold of the ground be- 
fore the frost set in, which w ould raise them all from the 
ground ; and, if not entirely destroy the plants, would 
oblige the farmer to plant them afresh, 
1 have attached the produce of my three-year-old spe- 
cimen to the plants it came from, cut in the way I a] 
ways practise ; on the thick end of the root I make two, 
and on the other end one cut, by w hich means the pro- 
per end to be planted uppermost, which is the thick one, 
may easily be know n. 
Although I recommend the roots to be planted in April, 
yet the farmer may, where he pleases, take up the thorns 
lie may want, and put the roots he has pruned off into 
sand or mould, where they will keep until he has leisure 
to cut them into proper lengths for planting ; he will like- 
wise keep them in the same w ay until planted. 
The great advantage of my plan is : first, that in ease 
any one has raised from haw s a thorn with remarkably 
large prickles, of vigorous growth, or possessing any 
other qualification requisite to make a good fence, lie 
may propagate it far better and sooner, from roots, than 
any other w ay. Secondly, in three years he may raise 
from roots a better plant than can in six years be raised 
from haws, and with double the quantity of roots ; my 
three-year-old specimen would have been half as big 
again, had I not been obliged to move all my cuttings 
the second year after they w ere planted. 
It would not be a bad way, in order to get roots, to 
plant a hedge in any convenient place, and on each side 
trench the ground two yards wide, and two grafts deep ; 
from which, every two or three years, a large quantity of 
roots might be obtained, by trenching the ground over 
.again, and cutting away what roots were found, which 
