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too powerful influence of the summer sun, which would absolutely 

 destroy them, if left to its mercy. These frames will also be con- 

 venient, for the laying of boards and mats over them, for the winter 

 protection of the plants ; without which, most of them would perish. 

 They may be either planted fea small pots sunk in the earth, or in 

 rows in the beds, ten inches asunder, and plant from plant, six 

 inches distant in the row. Water them immediately, and give 

 them shade for a few days. 



Planting deciduous Flowering and ornamental Shrubs. 



Such deciduous kinds of trees and shrubs as are yet to be re- 

 moved, should be transplanted in the first week or ten days of the 

 month, in the middle states, and not delayed longer in the eastern 

 states, than the fifteenth. For the various kinds and methods of 

 planting them, see page 293. 



Propagating Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens. 



For the methods of propagating all kinds of hardy flowering 

 shrubs and evergreens, see the Nursery in March; and also the 

 work of the Nursery in this month, June and July, &c. 



Planting E-vergreens. 



Every kind of hardy evergreen trees and shrubs, may be removed 

 in the beginning of this month, with the best possible success ; but 

 the earlier the better. See page 329, and the general catalogue of 

 hardy evergreens. 



Neither the English broad-leaved laurel, Portugal laurel, sweet 

 bay, Laurustinus, Arbutus or strawberry tree, nor the evergreen 

 cypress, can withstand the severity of the winter frosts, in the mid- 

 dle or eastern states, with very few exceptions, in the former ; and, 

 therefore, must in these places be treated as green-house plants. 

 In most parts of the southern states, they succeed extremely well ; 

 but all kinds of trees and shrubs will, there, require to be planted 

 much earlier in the season. 



In transplanting large evergreens, if the plants can be convenient- 

 ly taken up, and brought with balls of earth about their roots, it 

 should be done, placing them in the holes, with the balls entire : or 

 previously, pour some water into each hole, and with your spade 

 let it and earth be worked up together, then plant the roots in the 

 pap, and fill the earth in about them, tread it down gently, round the 

 stem, and form it a little hollow at top, in order to retain about the 

 roots, any water that may afterwards be given when necessary. 



Such as are not treated in this way, must have a plentiful water- 

 ing, immediately after being planted, to settle and close the earth 

 about the roots ; and if some mulch is laid on the surface round 

 each plant, it will be very serviceable in preventing the sun and 

 wind from drying the earth too fast. 



