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HEMLOCK HEDGES 
/^NE visiting the older estates in the 
midst of us will hardly fail to find 
thereon a hemlock spruce hedge or the 
remains of one. It and the Norway 
spruce and Arbor-vitce were the ever¬ 
greens a hedge was chosen from. There 
is to-day no better evergreen for a hedge 
than the hemlock. Always beautiful, 
it is especially so in early summer when 
its lovely pendant shoots of green foliage 
are displaying their lengthening growths. 
As a hedge or as a single tree, there is 
absolutely no evergreen that equals it in 
beauty. 
Many gardeners prune it twice a year, 
but unless desired of an exceedingly 
level outline, once a season is sufficient. 
This should be done when the new 
growth is nearly completed for the sea¬ 
son. The little made later will really 
thicken the hedge. Many plant with 
the idea that the hedge can always be 
kept at the same height, say four feet; 
hut this is not possible. Both height 
and width must advance a little, or the 
hedge would die. So prune as one will, 
a hedge will become very large in time. 
I'here are some hemlock hedges in this 
vicinity over fifty years old. There is 
life in them yet, but pruning has been 
so severe of late years, trying to keep 
back extension, that the vitality of the 
plants is low. Such old hedges should 
be taken out, fresh soil put in and young 
plants set. 
When hemlocks can he had with balls 
of soil attached to the roots, not one 
should fail. And even without the ball, 
there need be but little loss in trans¬ 
planting, if care be exercised that not a 
root be allowed to dry. It is the drying 
of the root that causes the loss of so 
many evergreens. Spring, or very early 
fall, is the best time to p\^m.- -Florists’ 
Exchange. 
INVENTION OF THE TELESCOPE 
/^NE day nearly three hundred years 
ago, a poor optician was working 
in his shop in the town of Middelburg, 
in the Netherlands, his children helping 
him or amusing themselves with the 
tools and objects lying about, when 
suddenly his little girl exclaimed: “Oh 
papa, see how near the steeple comes!” 
Anxious to learn the cause of the child’s 
amazement, he turned towards her, and 
saw that she was looking through two 
lenses, one held close to her eye, the 
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