Judge  Miller,  of  Texas,  who  first  brought  the  Marianna  stock  into  notice,
says  it  is  largely  used  in  his  state  as  a  hedge.  It  is  both  useful  and  orna-
mental when  loaded  with  its  wealth  of  beautiful  red  plums,  which  are  said
to  be  of  better  quality  than  the  wild  goose  plum.  I  have  planted  a  half
mile  of  hedge  with  it,  and  expect  to  keep  on.  By  planting  eighteen  inches
apart,  and  laping  the  limbs  together  till  they  unite,  a  regular  woven  fence
can  be  made  that  will  turn  a  hog;  then  by  stretching  a  barbed  wire  or  two
above,  as  they  grow  up  into  it,  no  breachy  stock  will  trouble  your  premises.
If  you  don't  want  to  dwarf  your  fence,  you  can  let  them  grow  at  will,  after


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locking  the  hranches,  and  the  rapid  growth  they  make  will  soon  make  a
valuable  windbreak,  equal  to  any  deciduous  tree.
OLIVES.
Here,  again,  I  know  that  many  well-meaning  persons  will  take  issue
with  me  upon  what  they  will  be  pleased  to  call  '*  foolhardiness,''  in  offering
any  advice  upon  the  culture  of  the  olive  in  Oregon,  but,  my  friends,  I  don't
propose  to  hide  away  under  a  bushel  what  light  I  have  on  this  important
subject  from  the  fruit-grower  of  Oregon.  You  need  not  look  back  more
than  a  dozen  years,  when  the  south  half  of  California  ridiculed  the  north
half,  when  a  few  venturesome  men  in  the  hills  of  Sonoma  and  Butte  coun-
ties planted  orange  trees,  claiming  that  they  would  never  ripen  so  far  north.
