88 OF PLANTING EVERGREEN SHRUBS. [April 



shoots from twenty to forty feet long, all covered with 

 a profusion of beautiful purple flowers. 



There are several other climbing plants, both curious and 

 ornamenta. ; 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 per- 

 haps the operator or some individual more distantly 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. 



OE 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, be\ng 

 more susceptible of such injury than fibres of deciduoas 

 plants. They now begin to vegetate, which is the (/rand 

 criterion for transplanting any plant. The buds begin to 

 swell, the roots to push, and if they can be quickly lifted 

 and replanted, they will hardly receive a check. At all 

 event3, caro must be taken that they are not long out of the 

 ground and exposed to the air. whi -h greatly assists the sue- 



