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month, or in March, be dug and got ready. The 

 ground may be laid up rough, that it may be so far 

 meliorated by the weather in the mean time; and 

 this sort of preparation will lessen the labour of the 

 two following months, in which the gardener is a- 

 bundantly busy at any rate. 



OF SHRUBS. 



Of planting deciduous Shrubs and HedgeSi 



Finish the planting of deciduous shrubs and 

 hedges as soon as now convenient, in all ordinary 

 soils, and tolerably good situations ; but in cold si- 

 tuations, and in moist, clayey soils, delay the plant- 

 ing till March. Evergreens should not be planted 

 till April, or the end of July, which see ; and for 

 directions respecting the planting of deciduous 

 shrubs, see Section I. and January 



Of priming hard?/ Shrubs. 

 About the end of the month, when very severe 

 frosts will be over, and none need be apprehended 

 , that will materially injure hardy shrubs, they may 



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