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bark, but generally, a little below a hud, and sometimes at the lower 

 extremity of the cutting, from between the bark and the wood. In 

 some kinds these buds decay and die away, but in gooseberries and 

 currants they always rise ki suckers, and from these others innu- 

 merably ; which always rob the fruit, and often render, even the 

 best kinds not worth their room in the garden. 



Your cuttings being thus prepared, plant them in rows eighteen 

 inches or two feet asunder, and about eight or nine inches apart in 

 the rows, always inserting them at least six inches into the earth, * 

 and if the shoots are sufficiently long, eight or nine ; leaving from, 

 four to ten inches according to circumstances, of a clean stem, be- 

 tween the surface earth, and lowest left bud, upon which to estab- 

 lish the head. Having had one or two years growth in these rows, 

 they may be planted out, either in autumn, or early in spring, 

 where intended for fruiting ; but, autumn is the most preferable 

 season. 



Gooseberries, of all other fruit-trees, require the richest soil. 

 The situation should neither be too high, or too low, nor the soil 

 much inclined to gravel or sand, a deep rich loam is their fa- 

 vourite. Where this fruit is expected in the best perfection, the 

 ground between and about the trees, must be kept free from weeds, 

 and dug every spring and autumn, and strongly manured once a 

 year, with old well rotted cow-dung : they must be judiciously prun- 

 ed, 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 on 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 tjie one kind of fruit, as of th 

 pther. 



THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWED GARDEN- 



Hyacintlis. 



THE choice kinds of Hyacinths, should now be protected from 

 severe 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 dan- 

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

 indifferent flowers. 



