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Dig the ground in the clumps or borders if not done in the for- 

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

 up fresh, will appear neat, and the plants will shew themselves 

 more agreeably. 



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 suc- 

 cess, such as common and persian lilac's snow-drop tree, fringe- 

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

 honeysuckles, Calycanthus, New-Jersey tea, Judas-tree, clethra, 

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

 double flowering thorns, cherries and peaches, snowy-medlar, Eu- 

 onymus in sorts, Fothergilla, althea-frutex, Franklinia, Guilandi- 

 nia, Sassafras, swamp Magnolia, Benjamin-tree, witch-hazel, St. Pe- 

 ter's-wort, Diervilla, roses, and all kinds of hardy deciduous 

 shrubs ; and also, the tulip-tree, lime-tree, poplars of every kind, 

 catalpa, chesnuts, of every sort, sour and sweet-gum, elms, ma^ 

 pies, walnuts, hickory's, plane-tree, hornbeam, beech, nettle-trees, 

 ash, honey-locust, oaks, poplars, See. &c. 



In planting trees for timber, allow them the proper distances for 

 the purposes intended : if for close plantations, or by way of cop- 

 pices 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 distance ; and 

 when they have attained growths, proper for the first thinning, se-r 

 lect the handsomest plants at regular distances to stand for timber, 

 and thin the rest ; but when designed to have the whole to stand for 

 a full plantation of large standards before any are thinned, plant their; 

 fet from ten to fifteen or twenty feet distance, 



Directions for planting all sorts of Trees and Shrubs. 



All flowering and ever-green shrubs, ornamental trees, Sec. do 

 signed for the shrubbery, and other plantations, should be planted 

 at such distances, that they may not crowd each other as they grow 

 up ; for they always show themselves best when they stand sepa* 

 rate at moderate distances. Shrubs of all kinds, designed for de* 

 tached clumps particulary, should be planted not less than three, to 

 four or five feet asunder ; that the -different kinds, according to their 

 growths,maygenerally rema in distinct ; but where a thickety growth 

 is required in particular compartments, a closer plantation may be 

 formed of different common shrubs. 



Let all the tree kinds be allowed 'proper room, proportionate to 

 their respective growths, and according as they are designed for 

 open or close plantations, or clumps, groves, avenues, or thick-, 

 ets, See. 



In planting shrubs and trees of every kind, let all convenient ex- 

 pedition be made in doing it, so that they may be planted as soon. 

 as possible after they are taken up, or brought from the nursery, 

 fir elsewhere j that their roots may not be dried by the sun and 



