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ground every winter, yet will, during the summer, 

 put forth shoots from twenty to forty feet long, all 

 covered with a profusion of beautiful purple flow- 



There are several other climbing plants, both curious 

 and ornamental ; but our limits will not admit of farther 

 detail. 



DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



Finish planting all deciduous shrubs in the early part of 

 the month. These plants are generally delayed too long ; 

 the leaves in many instances are beginning to expand, 

 thereby giving a check to the ascending sap, which we may 

 safely assert causes the death of one-third of the plants, 

 when perhaps the operator or some individual more dis- 

 tantly concerned is blamed. 



These shrubs, if properly removed and planted at the 

 exact starting of vegetation, pressing the earth close to 

 their roots when planting, (previously taking care that the 

 small fibres have not become dry, by exposure,) there will 

 not one out of fifty fail by these simple attentions. Those 

 that are late planted should have frequent waterings, and, 

 if large, firmly supported, that the wind may have no effect 

 in disturbing the young and tender fibrous roots. 



OF PLANTING EVERGREEN SHRUBS. 



Now is the season to plant-all kinds of evergreen trees 

 and shrubs. In most seasons, the middle of the month is 

 the most proper time, the weather then being mild and 

 moist; or if a late season, defer it to the end of the month. 

 When planted earlier, they will remain dormant until this 

 time, and their tender fibrous roots in that case frequently 

 perish from their liability to injury from frost or frosty 

 winds, being more susceptible of such injury than fibres 

 of deciduous plants. They now begin to vegetate, which 

 is the grand criterion for transplanting any plant. The 

 buds begin to swell, the roots to push, and if they can be 



