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GARDEN HINTS FOR NOVEMBER. 



Transplanting Trees, in many localities, may be continued through all this month • 

 but the earlier it can be completed, the better. No autumn planted tree can be consid- 

 ered in a safe condition until securely staked, if at all top heavy, and well mulched 

 around the roots. Delicate tall standards, such as the pithy Pawlonia and Catalpa, 

 should be mulched on the stem also — wrapped with straw or dry moss. Trees "heeled 

 in" (laid in by the roots) should be in perfectly dry, light soil, and will be better in a 

 slanting position than erect. Peach and other tender trees would be the better for a 

 covering of evergreen boughs. Care should be taken to clear away all harbor for 

 vermin near trees that are heeled in, as well as in the vicinity of all fruit tree plantations. 

 A few days work noio will probably save many valuable trees. Every spring we hear 

 complaints from all quarters, about the damages sustained from vermin. 



Jiaspberries should be laid, down and covered with a few inches of earth. This is 

 less labor than tying to stakes, and covering with straw. 



Straioberry beds should be mulched either with manure, tan-bark, or decayed leaves, 

 leaving the heart of the plant uncovered. 



Mulch every tree in the fruit garden. Protect all tender and half hardy trees and 

 shrubs, or rare trees recently planted and not yet well established. Mulch thom at the 

 roots with leaves or tan-bark, put around them a few stakes tied together at the top, 

 and cover with straw or mats. It is bad to bind plants closely during winter. 



Tender Roses can be protected by laying down and covering with leaves, tan-bark, or 

 light earth. 



Hardy Bulbous Roots, such as hyacinths, tulips, crocus, crown imperials, lilies, nar- 

 cissus, &c., can be planted as long as the ground remains open ; but the beds should 

 be immediately covered a few inches deep with leaves, litter, or tan. All tender border 

 plants should be protected in the same way. 



Dahlia Roots, Gladiolus, Tie/ridias, Tuberoses, and other tender roots and bulbs, 

 should be taken up in good season, as soon as the frost has killed the stems, dried well, 

 and put away on shelves in a dry cellar, or in boxes with sand. It is important to put 

 them away in a perfectly dry state. 



Operations on the (/round, such as digging, manuring, trenching, levelling, &c., can 

 be carried on in many places, even in the north, through the month of December. An 

 inch of frost is no obstacle to such labor, and it never should be deferred till spring. 



The Fruit Room will require attention. Apples for use during the latter part of 

 winter and spring, should be put up in dry, clean barrels, and kept in a cellar as cold as 

 possible not to fi'eeze, and perfectly dry. Winter pears may be kept on shelves in a dry, 

 cool cellar ; or they may be put in clean boxes, between layers of clean, dry straw, or 

 hay. The longest keepers may be put in the bottom, so as to get them out easily as 

 their season comes. Those who may not have a cellar so dry and cool as it ought to 

 be for pears, can put them among dry hay or straw in small boxes, and place these in 

 other boxes in a dry, cool loft. If freezing be apprehended, a covering of mats or cloth 

 may still be added to secure them. They should be taken into a warm room (GO or VO 

 deg.) a week or two before they are wanted. The Root Cellar will require attention. 

 All decaying vegetables should be instantly removed. 



On the 7th of October the beautiful residence of the late A. J. Downing, at New- 

 burgh, was disposed of at public sale. It contained about five acres ; but from the skill 

 of its arrangement it was made to appear of much larger extent. It contains, we think, 

 the finest specimens of ornamental trees in this country. It sold for $18,000, and was 

 -, L )>urchased by a gentleman residing in Newburgh. 



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