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ornamental ami 
genm*, am! should 
near tho house, Nr; 
Irena lie allowed eh 
because of their combustible *i -acini 
lledgo and lr*;« •*, when chmuly tm ,ed to 
keep them in form, are wwi-tantl drop¬ 
ping llre'rr dead foliage, wlii-'l mom 
IhIph in groat ipinntiiu-a im the -stall ttvig* 
ami limbs inside, und- t the outer f >Hage, 
ntnl if by chance it spark of Bn- li.dita on 
it, tin- whole is in a Male in an in-imt, arid 
will born with a rapidity »*■ ilnm.: «| oil 
had Ini’ii drenched over th*-m. A • iw* w 
purred recently in our city which |«m«' 
near resulting must disastrously. A /onil- 
man had a hedge of Monlttfvy’rypi 0>" 
foul high, six years old, which ha I In-- n 
kept closely cut. Some children -I 
have n In 
hi: mi- mot* ft • cal rroRxr.i. 
! from here in grown the million* that are 
anrmaHj aolrf, Th- ground, or rather **n! 
i that thew by souths and tulips are grown 
in was mine a part of the ovvao; bit ihw 
energetic Hollanders managed to corral a 
good many thousand arrea of aand, by 
means of embankments »> 
infill, are' v , v dan- uf “*• >1 
— i_ ‘ diddic* )- ....-• — 
SEASONABLE NOTES, 
. T. OTKATTO*, MCrAl.UM 
HEDGES, thongb highly 
anti 
pumped out in gome pla* 
mlit large , v-pmu j '•* othrr* it run hlf in the fall .»f i 
than twrr.r'y feet, Tl " - wintry being ao low. naturally «»rt 
moist, and tnuwgh the anil la an very aandr 1 
that they are compelled to u»v mobbing to , 
keep the wind from blowing the -and away 
in drift*, they a»» great litir* of m« 
nun-, and grow rh.« finest hyacinths »r 
tulipe in the world. Tim secret of then 
great sucres* ia their light and, a regular 
bottom mobiur*, that keeps the MU in 
full growth till patfmtly matured, food in 
great abundance to nourish them, and, I 
•uajx-ct, also the near pmsimiiy of sail 
water (oftentimes leaa than two font from 
the surface — it will stand m the holesi 
supplies an element of find indiapensablr 
We can grow »s hue a hyacinth in Califor¬ 
nia a» iri any pa»t of the world. <b»r Ion/ 
summer and genial spring waatber girna 
bn made a dwarf, prune 
but if ** want *«»« an ! 
/"•star maturity. Again 
»*P, or during active g, 
and we conduce to the be 
of alt teres and shrub* 
' th" ie the v-ar when w 
Uoaes ahrutk) be pruu* 
•ilfr The strong grow 
it away new-half, while 
s*ly thinned o 
ad. 
■ £'■'*$ tnau die anils 
, I season we bad w 
l nf the wall -h«»U 
'-."i, and aa ww needs- 
ro ■ t iog» to plant of Ibis 
w- re ait cot very sever 
but one, and that one w: 
fming and 
p*52 
igeatty 
•/ at a 
si now ear; 
r rare- 
‘kina •o*e* 
should 
• to.a rub 
> must 
be r«| 
*e*b^e ,r ^ 
•ndard 
ly II.K- 
U sand 
rmwte r»J 
i p'ar is 
ly. They * 
all die*l 
r had 1.* 3.1 
dpkTu, 
atlnna, f< 
•si* v *a 
ilibhaei. 
ft wan 
- _fire fully forty feet fr- m tb« 
hedge, and n gust of wind named a twig, 
blazing, as was supposed by the n,r«iM», 1 * 1 ' *"» v.r,- • «• i 
over into I In 1 road, but in an miant a' “ ,ii '■ 11 , ’ u ”• 1 ' ■ 
crackling of fir« was La-aid; the 
. . ,< green cy¬ 
press was burning as (hough a pi!.- . f ahav- 
ings, the hlazo fully twenty Met high, giv¬ 
ing out a great heat and creating i panic. 
Water buckets were brought into u. but 
no onccould get closo enough to tin w any 
water on, and it seemed «s though, from 
the great rapidity with which it «m -on vl 
ing, tho house must burn, and nothing 
it httd run two hundred feel against »h< 
wind, whyn the neighbor)* ram* In tlu> m- 
fun. A section ivas chopped out I'b.ws to 
the house, and water thrown on thy end 
just, in time lo dampen it auiliricnily v and 
the homo was saved. 1 saw the fire, is-iit 
cd in extinguishing it, and ri solved ‘.hat in 
llie future to never recommend • \ pr* ” 
hedges or tree* to bo grown t.u nuf «n» 
building. If the dead foliage i . gulatly 
keep Uu-en growing juat aa long M th. y w i 
grow, by irrigation, we can boat even the 
Dutch. Try it. 
Shrubbery i* wily uaefnl as a wi-uic nf 
feet, and as such, tb«ir chara»-ter, habits.; 
and what wr want to produce hr planting 
them, *boaId b« clrwclv studied', nor nun l 
we only look at thr little plant of a year or j 
two's growth. What will thay be at m* 
tnrity i* the all important point to *uh - 
fhtwnN is a virtue we must cullivaie with i 
all the care of a valuable rare ei«*tic. A 
amall plant in moat eaaea ia Iwtter than a 
large one. Vet rooat pwraona aw only t-. 
nod; still, they arc a dangerous ormnieiit 
'I he flower gaolen, at this time of lb, 
make a good showing at om- It •* an ijW 
saying among gar.bncrs that “ the beet 
of -heap. 
place for a tree to grow is wham it Srat 
. 
takes root," and will aptly apply. The 
larger a ah nth or tree i* when removed, the 
J -• d !•» be 
greater tb* In** of wart*, and a* the am*roc 
i. (tafan 
»u* left, tmt it name .ait j. 
U-’ Each *.rt nan-t lw well 
r »s must pay dear f r Ivan. 
• ••rag that nearly alt anno, 
«» •* —-tam 
b» prvaad only imiwdiaislv a 
•mj t I ahall r»f»r »** th»* intaw 
**{»••> Tho aabjecl )• iiMthaiiv 
shall often try to hare a lam.In 
tho 'cadcr* ai tiie Seal Tawn , 
in/ to know all about it, bat air 
11~.« wiiat I know. 
rnn K-.gbsh i'w»«nn)Mii, M. 
.1 ! valturta, will auon «nbfy 
t.. .. Wf. ’O Ik* importation A 
l«.«- oat tie. It haa alrewly dee 
< e (he 
ytrrtr, m-ods wnooial study and attention. 
I he planting of bulbous planta, the Iran- ' ,)v ’ 
phiiiting of shrub*, manuring ami placing ' *' l,, 
".■ • • ,i... .>.; U. • 
tlm win ill) in oitlcr for tin- c< 
a more than mo 
ir tin w o ■ a 
t feed i 
nolii’’’. As, 
. WWWBUWWWIu tlttltt, and j _ ° 
then wo expect loo much. Plants Iiarc 
thrir nature* just the same n% you* ■ ‘nMn-n 
Naturo h reward ia perfection, and we muat 
study plant life |o know their wania,ju»t 
M much a* wo study the laws of animal 
life In obtain their true* value 
Hvai-lilthe and tulip* rcouirn a mi rich, 
light ami. I'.„ well r.ui! I ,n..mo .m 
freely. Dig it tbnr.mghly and ,. n d .- v 
Always .elect a *}*..! that - -lugh o I dry” 
in -lnr~ -t— -- i„ #t>lv , Plant 
•k in growlh i* irry often the 
remit. In many ***** ihe bskaw >• mad* 
J‘ I by rstnovtng a part of the ton, and fur re 
suit* may be tbua oblalssa to plant"-/ 
targe apecirooa. Bat two often this ia Ml 
undi’iw*. or duus «k; very improperly ih«i 
t straggle* away a aukly want 
toibrmr arwia. They a 
U-P nf the aand* with » 
1 the atnwaphere. Th 
! .subfol ««)»• r, ami 
1 11 Jinn* rem 
This bring* u® b» the subject of pruning 
|ana of tlm roost important tnpir* w* > u 
write hi. Whew to prune ia u<4 aUajr 
j undcisl.-rl anymore than bo<# lo do " 
and w« ..ften aim the muni wreu-hed butch 
viy by would i.**' |irirl*r*l hands; and 
I (hi. tree butcher ia trow at w*wk, we « nr. ’ 
wrcl them: aearonabb* nolca will U o 
rut I wit 
■ 
a»d Or*hM i 
Iiod after the 
1, up- 
much value. 
• .um, cwtliretv the gro..*!, .*en -s* o 
!.*• K »•»•! are aslf *up|*u«iog. 1 r,r . 
»^ea are built on * hign |daia*u, about f 
which n»-e )» the undo * sandy and •( 
,..r«ntly sterile plain. G'*oJ *r**jw *>f •?»•« 
iniruttUiia, wttipaa »’»d -'»her .sgefaWc 
i av-J **>• fmilhm ary. rai«ai an-und the «« 
^_ __ ^ ^ ^ ^ _ ____ _!of tkla plateau, rot whwk cupn>u* *»oa«t 
great buA', Oountry <n Ku, ., o .» liollhud. i Jcb.liUti-a alway • If a bedgw or Ire. >* fall Wy ym-. 
Vsuing evergreen* 
should 
in w 
them fully four inch.* deep, and if you pruned "til they allaiu sUo’s'l' 
have obtained g,.,„| bulb* you will mW,' lateral may by pi*., bad 'bint 
regret any extra labor givi'u them Th« | unlcae we want to dwarf them. IVumug 
