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result. But this growth, let it be two feet or less, 
must also be cut back at the close of winter to 
about one foot, to encourage a very thick base, 
this being the foundation of a good hedge. This 
cutting back should result in giving a good, thick 
hedge to start with and after this the pruning may 
be to give the “hedge" shape to it. This is done 
by trimming it twice a year, once in early summer 
and again when growth is nearly over in summer. 
What adds to the popularity of the plant is its 
endurance of pruning. It may be cut two or three 
times a year and closely cut and still a good hedge 
is there and should it be that it has been neglected 
in any way and become bare and unshapely it may 
be cut down to the ground and it will spring up 
again as fresh as ever. 
As to its hardiness, not until the severe winter 
of 1898-1899 was it ever hurt. The week of zero 
weather then killed the tops partly where the 
plants were in unfavorable positions, but many a 
hedge, my own among them, was not hurt at all. 
It may therefore be classed as quite hardy. 
A true evergreen sort, hardy hereabouts, is on 
trial, and promises to be a great acquisition. It is 
the Ligustrum Japonicum. The foliage is of a 
beautiful green, shining, dark and glossy. It is 
not unlike the myrtle, Myrtus communis, such a 
familiar shrub in the south of England. So far it 
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has stood very well in these parts. It was injured 
partly in the last severe winter, but only to the 
extent of a loss of tops, serving as a good pruning. 
The six degrees above zero, already mentioned as 
having occurred already this season, has not even 
browned its leaves. About Washington, D. C., it 
is a great favorite, there being many of them about 
the Capitol grounds. 
Joseph JSIcchan. 
MEMORIAL, FOUNTAIN, LEE, MASS. 
In the fall of last year, there was dedicated at 
Lee, Mass., a fine memorial fountain of particular 
interest. It was begun by the Loyal Temperance 
Legion under the leadership of Amelia Jeannette 
Kilbon, and was completed by other friends as a 
tribute to her memory, for she died before the work 
was fairly underway, and the ceremonies attending 
the dedication were impressive. 
The fountain was designed by Daniel Chester 
French, and cut from Lee marble; and as a work of 
art it will occupy a high place in the public memor- 
ial of Western Massachusetts. 
The illustrations giving front and rear view's ex- 
plain the main features. The dolphin which adorns 
the rear face, an I which is a beautiful piece of 
modeling w.is designed by Mr. F. Edwin Flwell, 
sculptor, of New York. 
MEMORI.VE FOUNTAIN, EKE, MASS. 
