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Let this be done in a dry day, hoeing, or lightly digging and stir- 

 ring the earth carefully between the plants, taking care of the shoots 

 of bulbous roots, &c., which are now just peeping through the sur- 

 face ; clearing away all decayed leaves of the plants, weeds, and every 

 sort of rubbish, and then let the beds or borders be neatly raked even 

 and smooth. 



By thus loosening the surface of the borders, the first growth of 

 seed- weeds will be retarded, it will greatly promote the strength of 

 the flowers, and the whole will appear clean and agreeable. 



PRUNING SHRUBS, AND DIGGING THE CLUMPS IN THE SHRUBBERY. 



Finish pruning all sorts of flowering shrubs and evergreens which 

 require it, observing the directions of the two former months. 



Dig the ground in the clumps or borders if not done in the former 

 month, which will prove beneficial ; the ground being turned up 

 fresh will appear neat, and the plants will show themselves more 

 agreeably. 



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PLANTING DECIDUOUS FLOWERING SHRUBS, ORNAMENTAL AND 

 FOREST TREES. 



Where deciduous flowering shrubs or trees are wanted in any of 

 the pleasure grounds, they may now be planted with good success, 

 such as common and Persian lilacs, snow-drop tree, fringe-tree, blad- 

 der-nut, rose-acacia, bladder-senna, angelica-tree, Azalea, honey- 

 suckles, Calycanthus, New Jersey tea, Judas-tree, clethra, papaw, 

 leather-wood, fern-leaved Comptonia, Amorpha, dog-wood, double 

 flowering thorns, cherries and peaches, snowy-medlar, Euonymus in 

 sorts, Fothergilla, althea-frutex, Franklinia, Guilandinia, sassafras, 

 swamp magnolia, Benjamin-tree, witch-hazel, St. Peter' s-wort, dou- 

 ble altheas, of various colors; corchoras japonica, evergreen or sweet- 

 scented China honeysuckle, purple magnolia, pyrus japonica, purple 

 beech, copper beech, fern-leaved beech, Norway maple, sorbus hy- 

 brida, jasmine, rhus cotinus, or Venetian sumach, Dierville roses, 

 and all kinds of hardy deciduous shrubs ; and also the tulip-tree, 

 lime-tree, poplars of every kind, catalpa, chestnuts of every sort, 

 sour and sweet gum, elm, maple, walnut, hickory, plane-tree, horn- 

 beam, beech, nettle-trees, ash, honey-locust, oak, poplar, &c. &c. 



In planting trees for timber allow them the proper distances for 

 the purposes intended ; if for close plantations, or by way of coppices 

 or underwood for gradual thinning and falling for poles and other 

 small purposes, every seven, eight, or ten years ; you may plant them 

 in close rows only four, five, or six feet distant ; and when they have 

 attained growths proper for the first thinning, select the handsomest 

 plants at regular distances to stand for timber, and thin the rest ; 

 but when designed to fcave the whole to stand for a full plantation of 

 large standards before they are thinned, plant them at from ten to 

 fifteen or twenty feet distant. 



