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Notes from a Maryland Garden 
Ornamental Hedges.— .All around 
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privet are anything but ornamental, for 
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bushes. The common method of pruning 
tliese hedges results in a topheavy 
growth aud bare stems below. My hedge 
is made of the Amoor River privet, aud 
is now greeu and contrasting well with 
the brown leafless ones around me. 
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a wide base and a round, conical form, 
and the sides being fully exposed to the 
sun are thick to the gi’ound, and not a 
stem can be seen under the hedge. Aside 
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to perpendicular walls and flat tops. It 
is unnatural, for Nature makes no sfinare 
corners in vegetation, and I like my 
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others of the jn-ivets that :ire even more 
evergreen than the Amoor River variety. 
I have Lignstrum lucidum, which is as 
green to-day as a holly, find I have seen 
a broad-leaved species in the Botanic 
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the Winter there. It is far more dwarf 
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in North Carolina, standing nnsheared, 
grew but about four feet high in 10 
years. This would seem to make it de- 
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Other Hedge Plants. —But there 
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In the Spring this hedge looks like a 
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Ros.v Ri'gosa.— Rosa rugosa also 
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feet tall, and it is very dense find thorny 
and is both ornamental and defensive. 
Between the lawn, and the street the 
hedges come in very well, bnt I grubbed 
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Jack Bean. —Some one in the South 
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Vfiriety of the jack bean. Caimvallia ensi- 
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