gus cordata) cultivated by Mr. Main of Georgetown, Potomac, grows without difficulty.

The editor of the "Retrospect of discoveries," London 1806, says, "we have long ago practised the planting of shoots which came up plentifully from the fibres of the roots left in the ground, after stocking up white thorn hedges. We can also add that the best way of renovating a worn-out white thorn hedge, is to bare the earth, and chop off the large old stools with a sharp axe, near to, or below the lower fork of the stems: each one of whose roots will afterwards be found to throw up vigorous shoots, and much thicken the future hedge, if the same is thoroughly protected from cattle, and kept clean from weeds." These facts are highly encouraging to the commencement of hedge rows, and should induce the American farmer, without delay, to begin this important work. Land thus enclosed, will prove a much better fortune to the child who may possess it, than if the amount of the money which the work may cost, had been put out at interest for his

Description of a Kitchen Stove. By Samuel Dickey.
Communicated to John Miller.

Dear Sir,

Oxford, Chester county, February 29th, 1808.

There are few subjects on which the ingenuity of man can be employed to better purposes than devising the means of promoting economy in the consumption of fuel. Already our cities and their neighbourhoods, feel the severe effects of a scarcity in this article. But the time is not far distant, when this scarcity will be felt in a much higher degree; and many parts of the interior country that are yet hardly affected, will suffer most of all, as wood is the only fuel there attainable.Though much has been done by the inventions of ingenious men, much still remains to be done, and particularly in kitchens, where, it is the universal complaint, that much the greatest consumption takes place. My thoughts have been occasionally turned from the direct pursuits of agriculture, to this subject, and some experiments have been made which have terminated in the invention of a kitchen stove or closed fire place, which I flatter myself may be of service to society. To cover the expense incident to such inventions, and which cannot ordinarily be reimbursed in any other way, it has been thought necessary to secure the advantages (if any there may be) by a patent. As the encouragement of such inventions comes within the view of the association, I trouble you to present to the socie

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