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Digging between the Nursery Roivs. 



You should now continue to dig the ground between all such 

 trees and shrubs, as are to remain another year in the nursery 

 rows; this will destroy the weeds, improve the plants, and add 

 neatness to the whole during winter and spring. 



Care of neiv-planted Trees, Sec. 



Stake and tie up all new planted trees, that are in open exposures, 

 in order to prevent their being rocked about by the winds, than 

 which there is nothing more injurious to them. 



Lay light litter of some kind, a good thickness, over the roots of 

 the more tender and choice kinds of trees and shrubs, to protect them 

 from frost ; this will be of considerable service and encourage them 

 to shoot vigorously in spring. 



Pruning Trees and Shrubs. 



You may now reduce to proper form, any hardy forest or orna- 

 mental trees, flowering shrubs, Sec. cutting out any disorderly or 

 straggling branches, and trimming up the stems of such as require 

 it. But the more tender sorts should not be pruned till spring. 



Preparations for making New Plantations. 



Continue to dig and trench the ground, or to plough it extremely 

 deep, where you intend making new plantations in spring, by which 

 it will be greatly improved, and your business then forwarded. 



Where dung is wanted, it should be given previous to the 

 digging, Sec. and advantage ought to be taken of dry weather, to 

 carry it in and spread it on the ground. It will be much better to 

 give it at this season, than immediately before planting, as it will 

 have more time to incorporate with the earth, and to be deprived of 

 its rancid qualities. 



THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER-GARDEN. 



Planting Tulip-, Hyacinth, Anemone, and Ranunculus roots. 



THIS is still a very proper time to plant the roots of tulips, hya- 

 cinths, anemones, and ranunculuses, but the earlier in the month 

 it can be done the better; for it is a fact well known to every expe- 

 rienced florist, that bulbous and tuberous roots, which have time to 

 emit and form fibres before winter, are much less liable to be injured 

 by frost, than those which are planted late, and consequently lie 



