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old well-rotted cow-dung; they must be judiciously pruned, and each 

 tree kept to a single stem, without any suckers, which must be dug 

 up or stripped off whenever such appear. But all the culture oil 

 earth will not produce good fruit unless you have good kinds, for 

 there are crab gooseberries as well as crab apples, and as great a 

 variety of the one kind of fruit as of the other. 



THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 



HYACINTHS. 



The choice kinds of hyacinths should now be protected from se- 

 vere frost, for if permitted to penetrate so far into the soil as to reach 

 the bulbs, especially about the time that the plants begin to appear 

 above ground, it will produce a singular effect, by causing some of 

 them to shoot forth or discharge their stems or blossoms ; but if at 

 this time the roots become entirely frozen they are in danger of 

 being destroyed, or at least so weakened as to produce but indifferent 

 flowers. 



TULIPS. 



When your choice tulips appear above ground, if on examination 

 any distemper or canker is discernible on the foliage, about this 

 time, either above or a little below the surface of the soil, it should 

 be carefully cut out with a sharp knife, and the wounded part left 

 exposed to the sun and air, which will presently heal it : a fine dry 

 day should be made choice of for the foregoing operation. 



If the surface of the beds appear to be of too close and solid a 

 texture, it should be carefully stirred up, about two inches deep, 

 which will admit the air more freely to the stems, give vent to th^eir 

 exudations, and encourage their growth. 



Should the weather prove extremely severe, a slight covering of 

 mats, placed on arched hoops over the beds, will be very serviceable 

 to them. But this care or attention is not necessary for the common 

 kinds, growing promiscuously in the borders, &c. 



RANUNCULUSES AND ANEMONES. 



Continue to protect your choice kinds of early planted ranuncu- 

 luses and anemones, as directed on page 168 ; they will now require 

 particular attention, as the rudiments of their flowers will be ad- 

 vancing, which would suffer greatly if too much exposed to nipping 

 frosts. 



Finish planting the ranunculuses and anemones that are yet kept 

 out of ground for a successional bloom, which is to be done agree- 

 ably to the directions given in October. 



Ranunculus roots will lay in the ground sevora 1 days after plant- 



