. The American fruit culturist. Pig, S3.—Badly Pruned Hedge. Fig. 84.—BadlyPruned. Fig. 85.—ProperPruning. The hemlock, although hardly stout enough for a hedge untilit has grown many years, forms one of the most perfect andbeautiful screens in existence, and it would prove a fine shelterfor trees against the wind. Its fresh deep-green color is un-surpassed; and its denseness of growth in consequence of itsquality of growing in the shade is scarcely equalled. The SOIL, MANURES, SITUATION, AND ENCLOSURES. 57 Norway spruce will also make a fine hedge-tree. It growswith great vigor and may be fre
. The American fruit culturist. Pig, S3.—Badly Pruned Hedge. Fig. 84.—BadlyPruned. Fig. 85.—ProperPruning. The hemlock, although hardly stout enough for a hedge untilit has grown many years, forms one of the most perfect andbeautiful screens in existence, and it would prove a fine shelterfor trees against the wind. Its fresh deep-green color is un-surpassed; and its denseness of growth in consequence of itsquality of growing in the shade is scarcely equalled. The SOIL, MANURES, SITUATION, AND ENCLOSURES. 57 Norway spruce will also make a fine hedge-tree. It growswith great vigor and may be freely shortened back. Probably the very best shrub for making a handsome, quick-growing hedge is the California Privit (Ligustrum ovalifo-lium). It can be purchased from nurserymen eighteen inchesto three feet high in lots of one hundred, at moderate out from ten to twelve inches apart in good soil, it will,with proper cutting back each spring, form a dense hedge fiveor six feet high in a very few years. Three li
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