mentioned by our correspondent. May not the Ken¬ 
tucky Blue-grass be a distinct, permanent, and more 
luxuriant variety of the species known as Poa praten- 
sis —or is it the same variety only temporarily modified 
by more fa vorable soil and climate ? If our esteemed 
correspondent will send full length specimens (from 
root upwards,) to our associate at Union Springs, it will 
enable him to look more thoroughly into the matter. 
Poa sylvestris is a variety of the Poa compressa, 
(which species is also called “ Blue-grass, at the east,) 
with a looser panicle and more erect culm, and with the 
spikelets fewer flowered, than the common Poa com¬ 
pressa. 
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Plants for Ornamental Hedges. 
Editors op Country Gentleman —Can you advise, 
through the columns of your paper, as to the best kind 
of hedge for this part of the country—the best man¬ 
ner of planting or setting—whether seeds or slips, and 
cultivating it 2 and an opinion as to its durability. 
Any information l’egarding the cultivation of hedges, 
would have a general tendency to beautify lawns and 
fields in different parts of the country, and be grate¬ 
fully received. J. H. C. Valley Falls, P I. 
The best plant for hedges, on the whole, so far as 
our experience and observation extends, is the Osage 
Orange. We have no doubt it would prove sufficiently 
hardy at Valley Falls, if on a dry bottom soil. If the 
soil is not naturally quite dry, it should be placed near 
or over the line of a tile drain. This will render it 
much safer from severe cold, than if subjected to wet¬ 
ness. 
It is commenced by setting out one or two year old 
plants, six inches apart. These may be had of any 
principal nurseryman in western New-York for $4 or 
$5 per 1,000. They are always raised from seed. The 
young hedge must be well cultivated for several years, 
and cut back once or twice a year, according to the 
directions usually given for hedges, until 4 feet high. 
This cutting may be done with a stiff scythe. Not 
one Osage Orange hedge in twenty succeeds , simply 
because it is expected to take cafe of itself after set¬ 
ting out. Constant culture and cutting are as essen¬ 
tial as air and food to animals. 
The Buckthorn is extremely hardy, but is of slower 
growth, and rarely becomes stout enough, unless on a 
very rich soil, and with high cultivation—and it always 
fails in the shade of larger trees. It is never thorny 
—the Osage is always filled with sharp thorns. 
Evergreens make the handsomest hedges; and 
although less stout, yet by shutting out sight are usu¬ 
ally quite safe. The Norway fir is the fastest grower 
—the Hemlock most beautiful, and the best of any for 
the shade of trees ; the growth is however rather slow. 
It shears finely, and its interior is dense. The Norway 
fir also does well on these points. 
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Chinese Sugar Cane. —I have some molasses from 
the Chinese sugar sane, which 1 think equal to any 
that we buy, and think so favorably of it, that I in¬ 
tend to raise enough for my own supply next year. 
It is admired by all who have tasted it, and there will 
be a large quantity of it raised in this vicinity next 
year, and mills erected for its manufactory. From two 
hundred stalks, I had three quarts of thick heavy mo¬ 
lasses, which is not as large a yield as some of my 
neighbors had, as mine was not as ripe as it should 
have been. F. Doolittle. 
Spiel cr- Apple-Pie. 
“ O, they made an apple pie, 
And the cruet was made of rye *, 
You must eat it quick, or die 
On the barren strand.” 
—Nothing to Eat. 
Pot-apple-pies, platter-apple-pies, pan-apple-pies, 
apple-puddings, apple-dumplings, and so on, are all 
very excellent dishes, when well made; but a good 
spider-apple-pie is superior to them all. A good one 
is far better than a roasted turkey, a baked goose, a 
stewed Shanghai, and a score of other dishes, which 
are called good. It is a most capital dinner for a far¬ 
mer. Being very hearty, a hard-working farmer will 
labor on it, with a strong hand, and a cheerful heart, 
until the next meal time, without growing faint. It is 
like the best of medicine for a morose dyspeptic; for, 
after dining on such a dish, if despondency has been 
depicted on their visage for a month, a smile may be 
seen playing on their brow. hat a pertinent, and 
spicy, and instructive leader an editor will write after 
such a dinner ! Old bachelors, and old maids too, (no re¬ 
flections on their happy hours of single blessedness,) af¬ 
ter breakfasting on such a dish, if they are not really a 
“ dead set,” will, most assuredly, forget for the time 
their thirty-five and upwards; and be heard to shout, 
with as much animation as an old revolutioner ever 
sung Yankee Doodle, 
“ There’s the tinker, the tailor, the boy that follows the 
plow, 
I must and will get married! The fit comes on me now 7 .” 
How the children all like it; and it is infinitely more 
healthy for them, than pork and beef and such like. 
Let my wife dictate 
How to Make it. —It may be made plain and cheap, 
or very rich and costly, and always be good, if it be 
cooked just right. 
Make a good dough of rye flour, or wheat flour, 
(Graham flour is the best,) and prepare it as for biscuit. 
Prepare the apples as for common pies, and after 
greasing the spider, place the apples in a heap in the 
spider. See that no apples touch the side of the spider. 
Roll out the crust as thick as your hand, and place it 
on the apples, pressing it down between the apples and 
the side of the spider. No under crust. Cut a hole 
in the top of the crust, and pour into the apples about 
half a tea-cupfull of water for a spider that will hold 
about three quarts, and a half tea-cup of molasses, 
and a piece of butter as large as a hen’s egg. Cover 
it with a close lid, and cook with a moderate fire. 
Serve, when warm, with cream and sugar, with butter 
and sugar, with rich gravy, or with the extract of 
Sorghum, &c. And, when satisfied that 
“’Tis not for man’s supremest good, 
To cram himself with loathsome food,” 
take one platefull less. S. Edwards Todd. Lake 
Ridge, Tompkins Co., N. Y. 
Sheltering Cabbages for Winter Use. 
I would suggest a simple alteration in the plan re¬ 
commended of sheltering and shading cabbage from 
freezing, for winter use. Namely, instead of making 
a flat surface with old rails or ortherwise, and covering 
with litter—make a roof shaped surface by longer 
crotches opposite the middle of each end of the bed, 
and poles to fit, the middle pole being one and a half 
to two feet higher than the side poles. Then lay on any 
kind of wood of suitable size and length, and cover 
with bean haulm, or other coarse material—then with 
hay, and rake off smooth. By this means a roof that 
will throw off’ water is secured and the cabbage kept 
dry, and rain which would soak through a flat covering 
and be frozen into a coating of ice on the cabbage, ef¬ 
fectually carried over the sides of the bed. In some 
seasons at least, this would be true. I have adopted 
this plan in sheltering our cabbage for winter use. j. w. c. 
