The shade, during the summer, is also valuable. Peas will thrive in the shade long after they will no longer produce in the sun. Currant trees and Gooseberry trees will not do we'll in this climate unless they be in the shade. Raspberries also are best in the shade; and, during the heat of summer, lettuces, radishes, and many other things, thrive best in the shade.

It will be seen presently, when I come to speak of the form of a garden, that I have fixed on an Oblong Square, twice as long as it is wide. This gives me a long fence on the North side and also on the South side. The form gives me a fine, warm extensive border in the spring, and the latter a border equally extensive and as cool as I can get it, in the heat of summer.

Of the various benefits of this shelter and this shade I shall, of course, speak fully, when I come to treat of the cultivation of the several plants. At present I shall confine myself to the sort of fence that I would recommend.

I am aware of the difficulty of overcoming long habit, and of introducing any thing that is new. Yet, amongst a sensible people, such as those, for whose use this work is intended, one need not be afraid of ultimate success; and I, above all men, ought not to entertain such fear, after what I have seen with regard to the Rutabaga.

The people of this country listen patiently; and if they be not in haste to decide, they generally decide wisely at last. Besides, it is obvious to every one, that the lands, in the populous parts of the country, must be provided with a different sort of fence from that which is now in use; or, that they must be, in a fess years, suffered to lay waste.

Yet, with all these circumstances in my favor, I proceed with faltering accent to propose, even for a garden, a live fence, especially when I have to notice, that I know not how to get the plants, unless I, in the outset, bring them, or their seeds, from England!

However, I must suppose this difficulty surmounted; then proceed to describe this fence that I would have, if I could.

In England it is called a Quick Set Hedge. The truth is, however, that it ought rather to be called an Everlasting Hedge; for, it is not, as will be seen by and by, so very quickly set; or, at least, so very quickly raised. If I could carry my readers into Surrey, in England, and show them quickset hedges, I might stop here, and only provide the seeds or plants.

But, not being able to do that, I must, as well as I can, describe the thing on paper. The plants are those of the White Thorn. This thorn will, if it be left to grow singly, attain the bulk and height of an apple tree. It bears white flowers in great abundance, of a very fragrant smell, which are succeeded by a little berry, which, when it is ripe in the fall, is of a red color. Within the red pulp is a small stone and this stone, being put in the ground, produces a plant, or tree, in the same manner that a cherry stone does.

The red berries are called haws; whence this thorn is sometimes called the haw thorn; as in GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village: " The haw thorn bush,

with seats beneath the shade." The leaf is precisely like the Gooseberry leaf, only a little smaller; the branches are everywhere armed with sharp thorns; and the wood is very flexible and very tough.

The haws are sown ill drills, like peas, and they are taken from that situation and planted very thick in rows, in a nursery, where they stand a year or two, if not wanted the first year. Then they are ready to be planted to become a hedge.