210 
CHEROKEE ROSE HEDGE. 
10 minutes, stirring the whole time ; pour or turn 
the mass into a well-buttered mould; serve with 
hrown gravy. If you publish this, you will merit a 
statue in the new Houses of Parliament, for I defy 
the world to produce its equal as a farinaceous dish. 
’Twould make a skeleton corpulent .—Polenta 
gnocchi are also capital. Stir in hot water, and 
simmer till of a consistence which just allows it to 
run from the pan. Pour the mass on a hoard, and 
when cold cut it into diamonds of an inch square. 
The thickness of the paste should not exceed three- 
eighths, or half an inch. Put the squares close to 
each other in a dish, but they should not touch. 
Pile layer above layer, a little butter and grated 
cheese between each ; or, if you wish to eat it as a 
sweet or pudding, pounded cinnamon, sugar, or 
treacle. The butter, cheese, or sugar, prevent the 
bits and layers sticking to each other. Brown the 
whole by fire above and below, or bake in an oven, 
or steam until the cheese be softened, or the butter 
and sugar incorporated in the paste. The said 
gnocchi, made with common flour, are equally 
good. It is the Roman popular dish, and no oste- 
ria’s sign-board ever wants Gnocchi famosi in¬ 
scribed upon it. It is so general and common, that 
it forms the proverb invariably, should you offi¬ 
ciously seek to interfere in the property belonging 
to another, or remonstrate on its abuse —Ognun 
pud far della suo pasta gnocchi. Every one is at 
liberty to make gnocchi of his own paste, i.e., any¬ 
body may do what he likes with his own. 
An Old Traveller. 
CHEROKEE ROSE HEDGE. 
Your number for March is before me, and I hail 
it with more than opdinary pleasure. I see friends 
Solon and Coke both are out. These two are a 
whole host within themselves,—secure a continu¬ 
ance of their pens, and you may rely on Northern 
and Southern and middle men being pleased. 
Coke does not write the wffiole truth in objecting 
to fencing for his country ; he has made a little mis¬ 
take in his calculation, but to his own disadvantage. 
He never took to figures, and well may he remem¬ 
ber when our old mathematical preceptor gave him 
a sound threshing for preferring oratory to figures. 
I know Coke well, and have received many a 
drubbing in his presence for lack of hard sense. 
He says, “ a mile of our worm-fence occupies half 
an acre of ground.” Let us see ; a mile is 1,760 
yards in length,,an acre ,4,840 square yards,my fences 
have a 5-foot worm, then the lap added will be 
over 6 inches, we may say 6 feet, and always some 
lost outside of the line of fence, which, if only a 
fraction over 2 feet, would be an acre lost to every 
mile of fence; and take fencing as it is through 
the country where the “ Virginia worm fence” is 
used, and I hazard nothing in saying there is a loss 
of one acre to every mile. This swells the loss of 
capital to $500,000, the interest on vrhich would 
buy enough food for Coke and for such others, to 
feed a large portion of his state. I will not inter¬ 
fere further with his subject, as I conceive he has a 
fair claim to it in the South. As to this part of the 
country, we are not yet without great aid from the 
range,—we can kill hogs or cattle from the range 
that are in fine condition. There are many portions 
of this country that pay every dime the worth of 
their meat, butter and milk, by feed, fencing, 
and loss. 
Friend Solon is down upon us “ like a pile of 
brick.” I will not dispute with him about the 
dead Cherokee, or nondescript rose, nor deny that 
the hedge of Mr. Charles B. Green, of Madison 
County, did die; but I will assure him that the past 
winter has been more severe than any I have 
known here; and except the cold weather in 
February, 1835,1 have never seen the equal in the 
South. W ell, the. rose here is alive and doing 
well. I have seen it in W arren and only one other 
place in Hinds, not a dead one or a killed stem— 
whereas, the American agave six years of age was 
killed, many stems of nearly twelve varieties of 
the Bengal rose were killed, and many plants that 
have heretofore lived out were killed—I lost seve¬ 
ral of the pomegranate for instance. I would like 
for Coke to make inquiries, and will refer to a 
hedge laid down very near 30 years ago, on the 
west and north lines of a Mr. Nott’s premises in 
South Carolina, in latitude 34° N. I am confident 
that Coke can hear of hedges in South Carolina that 
are 30 to 50 years old. If this will not satisfy 
friend Solon then. I will quit trying to convince the 
“ old un.” I am aware that friend Solon stated 
precisely what is true, and as I cannot make any 
excuse for my brother planters, I will only say it i$ 
pure carelessness that these unsightly gaps exist. 
The cuttings are generally early to make leaf, but 
the difficulty lies in cleaning the hedge row before 
the plant has made root. Negroes, you know,— 
well, you may know it,—are a don’t care set of 
creatures, they chop with the hoe so near as to dis¬ 
turb the cuttings, and a great many die; the best 
way to do, is to send a faithful hand to give the 
first and second working, paying particular direc¬ 
tion to perform the work well, and not to mind the 
time; hoe the plants not. too close, and pull up the 
fine grass, or cut up that which has root enough to 
loosen the earth by pulling with a knife, I can. 
lay down a mile of hedge with four hands, a mule 
and plow to help me, in a day. My plan is—- 
move the present fence out, if possible; this fence 
row is rich land generally—if this cannot be done, 
manure the hedge row. I then throw up a ridge 
with four or six furrows of the turning plow, hav¬ 
ing laid off a row to bed to; I then harrow down 
fine, with an iron-tooth harrow; I then stretch a 
line—one hand with a dibble makes holes slanting 
under the line, a small chap comes after and drops, 
another hand inserts the cuttings- some six inches 
deep, and presses firmly on the land above with tbie 
foot, and goes on to the next. My plants are put 
in about one foot apart. Two hands can cut about 
as fast as one can plant, with a pruning knife, a 
neater and more workmanlike,way. I have sat on 
the ground and cut for a day at a time, in prefer¬ 
ence to chopping with a hatchet. My notion is, if 
one do these things right, he will take care of 
them when done. I have set this year over a mile, 
and think nine cuttings out of ten are now alive. I 
will clean out, this w r eek, and earth as much as 
they will bear. I do not like setting them on ditch 
banks; there is cost in ditching, if no advantage in 
the ditch to compensate. 
I have put out some 800 yards of the micro- 
