The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-09-07
Green Walls.

Mr.. A. A. Jones, solicitor for the
Cecil Hedge and Wire Fence Com
pany, whose headquarters are at Rising
Sun, in order to impress upon farmers
of Cecil the superior merits of the
Dayton Hedge and Wire Fence, by
ocular demonstration as we'll as precept,
invited small company to visit and
examine on Friday last, some work of
the Dayton Company that has been
done near Wilmington, Del. Owing
to the busy season among farmers and
other unforeseen causes, only Mfr. H. B.
Cordes of North East and Fl. Clay
johnson of Bay View of the Company
invited were able to take advantage of
the occasion and enjoy the excursion.
Messrs, A. A. Jones, Job Haiues and
the writer left Rising Sun on the 6:l9
train on Friday morning and were
joined by Mr.. Cordes and Mr.. johnson
at North East. The party were met
at the station on their arrival at Will
mington with carriages. by Mr.. saml.
johnson, the very efficient and
courteous agent of the Dayton Hedge
Go. We were driven first to examine
o young hedge which was set this spring
round the lawn Of a wealthy gentleman,
whose palatial residence is in the sub
urbs of the city. The sets had made a
growth Of two feet the present season
and were in an excellent condition, that
promised triple that growth next year.
Mr.. Cause, after examining the Hedge
and Wire fence and becoming satisfied
that it was not only the most ornament.
al. but the cheapest fence that he could
use, was Influenced from motives of
economy as well as beauty and orna-
ment, to substitute the wooden, picket
fence which at present encloses his
lawn, with the wire and hedge. The
picket fence requires coat Of paint
every two years and in a short time will
need renewing at a cost of 50 a rod, and
the Dayton Hedge he concluded was
preferable from every point of view.
The company was next driven to the
farm of Mr.. William Richardson mile
or two further where an old hedge
which the proprietor had about con-
clnded to dig up, it having done duty
for % years, and like all old upright
hedges was dying at the bottom and be-
coming generally dilapidated and use
less as we'll as unsightly. The Hedge
Company persuaded Mr.. R. to let them
try their hand on the old hedge. They
trimmed it to the bare stocks cut off
the side roots, bent the stocks to an
angle of As degrees and stretched four
wires along and stapled them fast to the
naked Usage orange poles. This vigor-
GUS trimming and bending the canes
caused young shoots to start all along
from the ground up to their tops
which at present constitute a hedge
that is trimmed into green wall about
8 inches thick and three and half
feet high, which is impenetrab!e with
few exceptional spots, to pigs or chick
ems its whole length of one hundred
and fifty or two hundred yards. This
is the result of only the present seasons
growth, when next summers is added
to this renovated hedge and trimmed
back it will make thing Of beauty
and a joy to its owner, as we'll as
neplus ultra to all species of stock
great and small.
Other renovated hedges were passed
and examined by the party, which
showed to equal advantage. These
wire hedge fences are SO strong that ten
men pulling on rope fastened to the
fence could not have the least effect
upon it. Hence their stiffness and
straight line of the centre canes enables
them to be trimmed to narrow green
wall, as plumb and narrower than
stone wall and straight as a stretched
line.
The side roots being cut off and the
side branches kept trimmed within
few inches of the main stem, crops can
be raised as close to the edge as to
stone wall, the roots not inclining to
spread latterally while the hedge is
trimmed to a narrow wall, that lets