. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. SOIL, MANURES, SITUATION, AND ENCLOSURES. 57 Norway spruce will also make a fine hedge-tree. It grows with 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 inches to three feet high in lots of one hundred, at moderate prices. Set out from ten to twelve inches apart in good soil, it will,
. The American fruit culturist, containing directions for the propagation and culture of all fruits adapted to the United States. Fruit-culture. SOIL, MANURES, SITUATION, AND ENCLOSURES. 57 Norway spruce will also make a fine hedge-tree. It grows with 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 inches to three feet high in lots of one hundred, at moderate prices. Set out from ten to twelve inches apart in good soil, it will, with proper cutting back each spring, form a dense hedge five or six feet high in a very few years. Three lines of barbed wire running through the middle will effectually prevent passing through it, and at the same time be entirely con- cealed. The following figures (some of which are produced from those in Warder on Hedges) will show how this, and indeed all hedges, should be Fig. 86.—Result of Omitting to Prune. FiG. 87.—First Year, Fig. 88.—Begin- Newly Set Out. ning of Second Year. The neglect of cutting down at the commencement causes the hedge to become thin and narrow, and full of gaps at the bottom where it should be the thickest; and dense and impene- trable only at the top, where this is less essential. In other words, the hedge becomes wrong-side-up, or mounted on stilts (Figs. 83 and 84). The appearance of the young hedge just before cutting down the first time is shown at a. Fig. 85, and the cut portion at b. It is almost impossible to induce a novice to cut " this fine growth;" he thinks it will " ruin" his young and promising fence. Yet if the work is omitted, it will in a few years appear as in Fig. 86. The following is the regular order of working each succes- sive year. Fig. 87 represents the plant the first year, or a few weeks after setting out; it has been cut down nearly to the surface of the earth, the tap-root trimmed
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