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but if you are obliged to fetch them from some distance, as it often 

 happens, you should be provided with a tin case about twelve inches 

 long, and a cover to the top, which must have five or six holes ; in 

 this case you should put as much water as will fill it about two inches 

 high, and place your cuttings therein in an upright position, so that 

 the parts which were cut from the tree may be set in the water, and 

 then fasten down the cover to keep out the air; the holes in the cover 

 will be sufficient to let the perspiration of these branches pass off, 

 which, if pent in, would be very hurtful to them } you must also be 

 careful to carry it upright, that the water may not reach to the buds, 

 which would so saturate them as to deprive them of any attractive 

 force to imbibe the sap of the stalk. 



INOCULATE AND LAY CURIOUS TREES AND SHRUBS. 



Agreeably to the preceding directions and observations, inoculate 

 roses, jasmines, and such other kinds as you desire to propagate in 

 that way. The moss rose may, in particular, be increased by this 

 means, as it is not very free in producing suckers; this may be 

 budded on stalks of any kinds of common roses that have been either 

 raised from seed or suckers. 



The proper stalk to bud any of the more curious kinds of jasmines 

 on, is that of the common white jasmine. 



Continue also to propagate the various kinds of trees and shrubs 

 by layers and cuttings, as directed last month. 



ORDINARY ATTENDANCE. 



Weeding, shading, and watering, must now be particularly attended 

 to as directed last month ; without which, much injury will be sus- 

 tained, especially by the seedlings, layers, and late transplanted trees 

 and shrubs. 



You should continue to train your evergreens for the purposes they 

 are designed ; and when any of your forest-trees shoot too vigorously 

 near the roots, those branches may be pruned off, to encourage their 

 heads. 



THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER GARDEN. 



BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS ROOTS. 



Take up the bulbs of such late flowers as were not sufficiently ripe 

 nor their leaves decayed last month, as ornithogalums, bulbous irises, 

 martagon, and other lilies ; transplant the roots of fritillaries, crown 

 imperials, dens canis, and such other bulbous and tuberous-rooted 

 flowers as do not endure to be kept long out of ground ; and this 

 being the season in which their roots are not in action, is the most 

 proper time for transplanting them, before they put forth new fibres ; 

 after which it would be very improper to remove them. 



