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rooms early in spring ; the glasses should be then placed where they 

 may have as much free air as possible while the weather continues 

 mild ; if they are placed near the windows of a green-house, where 

 they may have free air in favorable weather, and be protected from 

 cold and frost, they will produce fine, strong flowers, and at a very 

 acceptable season. 



The water should be changed as often as it turns greenish, and the 

 glasses well washed inside. Particular care must be taken not to 

 suffer the water to be frozen in winter, which would not only injure 

 the roots but burst the glasses. 



POTTING ROSES, ETC., FOR FORCING. 



Pot roses, honeysuckles, double-flowering almonds, peaches, cher- 

 ries, and thorns, and any other desirable shrubs, whether evergreen 

 or deciduous, either for the convenience of affording them protection 

 in winter, decorating any compartments in spring or summer, or for 

 placing some of them in the forcing departments in December or 

 January, to force an early bloom. This must be done with care, 

 not injuring the roots, and taking up as much earth with them as 

 possible. When potted, place them in the shade for ten or twelve 

 days after, or until you find it necessary to house or otherwise pro- 

 tect them. 



PRUNE FLOWERING SHRUBS. 



This is a very proper season to prune roses, lilacs, honeysuckles, 

 and indeed all kinds of hardy trees and shrubs, whether deciduous 

 or evergreen. Let this be performed with a sharp knife, and not 

 with garden shears, as sometimes practised. But to avoid repetition 

 I refer you for further instructions on this head, to page 172. 



All suckers which arise from the roots should now be taken clean 

 away, for when suffered to remain they starve the old plants and 

 prevent their flowering; many kinds of shrubs, for instance the lilac, 

 will send forth great numbers of suckers from their roots, which, if 

 not annually taken off, will spread over the ground to the great in- 

 jury of your plants. These suckers, if wanted, may be planted in 

 nursery rows for a year or two, and will then answer for renewing 

 the old or for forming new plantations. 



FORMING NEW ORNAMENTAL PLANTATIONS, ETC. 



This being a very proper season for laying out and planting plea- 

 sure-grounds, I refer you for general information on these subjects 

 to page 74, &c., which though given in a month not favorable for 

 such work, in the middle or eastern States, I considered it a period 

 in which there would be leisure time for contemplating the designs 

 and making preparations for the carrying of them into execution on 

 the opening of spring. 



All kinds of hardy deciduous trees and shrubs may be planted as 

 soon in this month as they shall have shed their leaves ; the ever- 



