A NEW HEDGE.
To the multitude of garden novelties, " created " or im- ported, there is no end ; but it is only now and then that a plant is introduced which adds a permanent enrichment to the materials at the amateur gardener's disposal, such, for example, as the first climbing roses, or the Penzance briars, or the waved sweet-peas with waved standards, or, may one say ? that joint friend of the butterfly and the gardener, Buddlcia Veitchiana magnifica or variabilis. I should feel inclined to add to this list a more or less recently imported shrub or hedge plant, Pyracantha Rodgeri. Its speed of growth is altogether astonishing in congenial surroundings. Its leaves, its flowers, its little red berries, its ha bit are all singularly attractive, and not least it forms a close and scarcely penetrable hedge. An advantage of it is that it strikes very readily from "heel" cuttings.
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