The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-31
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F,yIs, January 2s.-The enterprising citi
i contemplate building first-class col
u 10 cost not less than $4,000. From
/, interest they seem 10 be taking in the
enterprise it will not be long before
~ will have one of the finest school
Ellings in,t the state. Ennis, like the bal
L. Of Texai, is not lacking in matrimonial
\, 10 build up a fine school. The eoun-
cast. west and south of Ennis is thiekly
LII and is as well adapted to all the
licnlt:ral aud horticultural pursuits as
|, norton of north Texas.
En- Central railroad have force of hands
{;arrett to commence on the new branch.
II informed they have been unable So
n secure the right-of-way through a
H. tract of land. Ennis is solid
Have not heard of a single cti-
who contemplates moving to the
rure wonder" | notice since my
IN here last summer considerable inn
hvement; quite number of substantial
IN buildings have gone up, including the
Lra.house. Those of tue travelling pub
who stop at Ennis will find the Ken
[ky house one of the best kept houses on
line of the Central railroad. A gentle
In from Illinois, who is travelling in Texas
A who, before he leaves the state, proposes
|nurchase fence and stock some thousands
|acres of land, was the occasion of our
seiying call from Colonel Geo. NJ. Hogan,
4 while listening to their conversation
Think we learned something in regard to
! Mccartney rose hedge and the Texas
Ia grass, that people of Texas should
low and use to their profit. Colonel Ho-
a lives now at Ennis, and those of our
kders unacQuainted with him will say
Id his thirty-tive years in raising trees,
kubs and plants in Texas makes
opinion worth more than that
most any man of our acquaintance in re-
IA to the adaptability OF any tree, shrub
|plant to this soil and climate. Colonel
bgan began by saying; The Mccarthy
n as hedge plant is worth more as
bge plant TO Texas than all the
he trees III it: for you before
| make fence of them, they
Est be cut, sawed and transported at great
bense, while miles of McC artney rose can
1 made at nominal cost, and the hedge is
/ I'LL lllt lutCl hCSlliJit. hliON
at must now be more that 3G years old,
u have never heard of one dying or get
"a out of order, so that II would not turn
ttle, hogs, sheep or anything that wears
De, wool or bristles. 1t will grow on sandy,
bck-waXy, clay or alkali soil. brought
I'M Mrs. Danchards, on Bayou Rapides
|uisiana, in November, 1915, to San Angus
|e, Texas, which was probably its
b introduction to this state. | after
Fd moved it to Chat6eld, Navarro county,
|xas it is there now fifteen feet high and
thick a bird cannot fly through it,
u has Eever been pruned. 1t was set on
worst kind of alkati soil and no drought
n troubled it. Hard-freezing weather
BIT hurt it; last winter was quite cold,
\ the rose did not even droop its leaves.
|at which ! have in Ennis ON my place
i grown from cuttings brought from
btfeld. The difference between this rose
II the Cherokee is that the Mccartney has
booked thorn which turns backward SO
n it never let's go, while the Cherokee has
|her straight thorns and gets thin at the
tom, while the Mccartney thickens up.
h hedge can be kent under perfect con-
pl, also from spreading too wide, by de-
ling one day in each year, about the 10th
pune, with revolving steel coulter or
bible shovel pillow, by which one man can
in perfect condition eight miles Of
lying in one day. 1t is better adapted |
&he prairies of Texas than to the alluvial !
! Of Louisiana, where | first saw it, as
Ire it grows SO rank it requires more at
ton. On the rich bottom lands of Lon
)na it grows tremendously, some of the
hedges being twenty feet high. A
|nd OF mine had u truck patch fenced
d it, and suitable gates; it was negro
bf; but the watermelons were large and
tious and so tempting that one negro
|tured to try it; so with two
Is to help him mount, two on
and two to descend, he succeeded in
fling over, but on his return, laden with
ions, his foot slipped and he fell, FORUM
~ astride rail, and he was held there
morning His lamentations were loud
long, and he was only relieved by cut
the hedge away with cane-knives and
|ing him drop to the ground, u wiser if
a more honest darkey. The fears that
bnnot be cxterminated are groundless.
|man, who has hedge of it, will wish TO
erminate it; if he should, all he would
|e to do would be to cut it down in June,
b mp the very large roots, plow thor
|hly, and that will be tie end it, do
know valid objection to it as hedge
BIT. | believe no Texas farmer can afford
BE- without it, and that any man can
pre- to himself n fortune by purchasing
b of land in Texas and setting hedge
Mccarthy rose around it, and sowing it