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diately before, their respective vegetations commence; which is a rule 

 that ought to be carefully observed. (See the Nursery and Pleasure 

 Garden for next month.) 



PLANTING ROSES. 



You may plant roses any time this month that the weather will 

 permit ; and indeed there is a particular advantage in planting some 

 every ten days, even to the middle of May,- for the flowering of them 

 may be retarded in this way, and the bloom of those delightful shrubs 

 continued for a much longer period than if all were planted at the 

 same time ; but such as are planted after the twentieth of April, 

 should the season prove dry, will require shade and water until they 

 have taken fresh root. The early planting, however, will be the 

 most successful in growth, and flower in greater perfection than the 

 others. 



PLANTING BOX EDGINGS. 



Box, of all other plants, makes the neatest and most beautiful 

 edgings, and this is a very successful time to plant it, particularly in 

 the middle States ; in the other States it should be planted on ihe 

 spur of the earliest spring vegetation ; for although it is an ever- 

 green, its taking and growing freely by slips or cuttings, causes it to 

 agree with early planting better than those kinds that do not easily 

 propagate in that way ; and, moreover, it is very hardy and seldom 

 injured by winter frosts. 



To make neat edgings you should get some short bushy box, and 

 let it be slipped or parted into moderately small slips of not more 

 than from eight to ten inches long ; if any of them have roots or 

 fibres, the better, but the cuttings or slips will all grow if planted 

 early, and kept moderately and occasionally watered. The long 

 woody roots of such as have them must be trimmed, and all the 

 plants, slips or cuttings, made pretty much of a length. 



The method of planting is this : stretch your line, if for a straight 

 edging, along the edge of the bed or border, let that part be trodden 

 lightly and evenly along to settle it moderately firm, and with the 

 spade make it up full and even according to the line ; then on the 

 side of the line next the walk, let a small neat trench be cut out, 

 about six inches deep, making the side next the line perfectly up- 

 right, turning the earth out towards the walk or alley. 



The box is to be planted in this trench close against the upright 

 side next the line, placing the plants so near together as to form 

 immediately a close compact edging, without being too thick and 

 clumsy, and with the top of the plants as even as possible, all an 

 equal height, not more than an inch or two above the surface of the 

 ground ; and as you proceed in planting, draw the earth up to the 

 outside of the plants, which fixes them in their due position ; and 

 when you have planted the row out, then with your spade cast in the 

 earth almost to the top of the plants, and tread it neatly and closely 



