The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-02-02

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yens contemplate building q fret class cd.
lego 10 cost not less Than $1,000 FROM
the interest they scom 10 be- taking w The
the enlefphso II will not be long before
they will have ono Of the finest school
buildings In the state. Ennis, Ike The bal.
nnco Of Texas. Is not lacking In matrimonial
fruit 10 build mp fine school The coun-
try cnst. west and south Of Ennis is thickly
settlrd and IL as well adapted 10 OIL the
agricultural and horticultural pursuits W.
any portion of north Texas.
The Central railroad have u force OF hands
at Garrett to commence on the new branch'
1 ann informed they have been unaDlc 30
lar IN secure the rightof-way through
single tract of land. Ennis IS solld'
I have not heard of single cur
zen who contemplates moving. to the
,,ruture wonderh | notice since my
visit here last summer considerable I'M,
proyement; quite number OF substantial
brick buildings have gone up, incluulhE inc
opcra.house. Those of the travelling pup
lic who stop at Ennis will find the Ken
tuclty house one of the best kept houses ON
the line of the Central railroad. gentle
man from Illinois, who is traYelingin IeNas
and who. before he leaves the state, proposes
| IN purchase fence and stock some thousands
| of acres of land, was the occasion OF our
receiving n call from Colonel Geo. NJ. Hogan,
and while listening to their conversation
we think we learned something IN TeSa,u 10
the Mccartney rose hedge ana the leNas
blue grass, that people OF IeXas shonlu
| know and use to their profit. Colonel Ho-
gan lives now at Ennis, and those OF our
readers unacouainted with him will say
| that his thirty-ive years i'll raising trees,
| shrubs and plants in Texas makes
his opinion worth more. than that
of most any man of our acquaintance IN re-
gard to the adaptability OF any tree, shru9
| Hogan began by saying: Inc MCCARTHY
rose as a hedge plant is worth more as =
hedge plant TO Texas than all the
nine trees III it: for you before
can make ftnce OF them, they
must be cur, sawed and transported at great
eypense, while miles Of Mccartney rose can
| he made at nominal cost, and the hedge Is
by far the most desirable. | know hedges
flat must now be more that 30 years OLD,
and have never heard of one dying or get
| ting ont of order so that II would not turn
cattle. hogs, sheep or anything that wears
hair, wool or bristles. 1t will grow on sandy,
black-waXy. clay or alkali soil. brought
from Mrs. Banchards, on Bayou huPl.aes
Louisiana in November, 1915, to San Angus
tine, Texas, which was probably Its
frst introduction to this state. l after
ward moved it to Chatfield, Navarro county,
| Teyas. II is there now fifteen feet high and
so thick bird cannot fly through IL,
and has never been pruned. 1t was set on
I've " orst kind of alkali soil, and no drought
aver troubled it. Hard-freezing weather
don't hurt it; last winter was quite cold,
Int the rose did not even droop its leaves.
| That which have in Ennis on my place
was grown from cuttings brought from
Chatfeld The difference between TINS rose
and the Cherokee is that the Mccartney mas
a hooked thorn which turns backward So
that IL never lets go, while the Cherokee mas
rather straight thorns and gets thin at the
hottom. while the Mccartney thlckens up.
The hedge can be kept under perfect con
troll. also from spreading too wide, by de-
voting one day in each year, about the loti!
of June, with a revolving steel coulter or
double shovel pillow, by which one man can
nut in perfect condition eight miles OF
hedying In one day 1t is better adapted
to the prairies of Texas than to the aiiuvlal
soil of Louisiana, where | first saw it, as
there il grows So rank it requires more at
tention. On the rich bottom lands OF Lon
isiana it grows tremendously, some Oh the
old hedges being twenty feet high. a
friend of mine had truck patch fenced
with it, and suitable gates; it was negro
proof: but the watermelons were large ana
luscious and so tempting that one negro
ventured to try it; so with two
rails to help him mount, two on
top and two to descend, he succeeded IN
getting over. but on his return, laden with
melons. his foot slipped and he fell, FORUM
ately astride a rail, and he was held there,
til morning His lamentations we're loud
and long, and he was only relieved by cut,
ting the hedge away with cane-knlves ana
letting him drop TO the ground, wiser If
not more honest darkey; The fears that
it cannot be exterminated are groundless.
No man, who has hedge of it, will wish 10
exterminate it; if he should, all he would
have to do would be to cut it down IN june
crnb mn the very large roots, plow thor
oughly, and that will be tie end it, do
not know a valid objection to it as hedge
plant. / believe no Texas farmer can afford
to be without it, and that any man can
secure to himself a fortune by purchasing
tract of land in Texas and setting hedge
of Mccarthy rose around it, and sowing ii
II Texas blue grass"