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above all, avoid auction treen : the most worthless in the nursery are frequently selected for those 

 sales, and with attractive names sent to some distant point, where the purchaser cannot have re- 

 dress when the deception practiced on him is made evident — which, perhaps, is not until after 

 years of careful culture. 



Another important matter connected with this subject, is the method in which the ti-ees are 

 planted. Let it be done deliberately and with care. If the ground in which you are about to 

 plant be of an indifferent quality, provide a liberal quantity of rich earth for each tree, and cast 

 aside that which is taken out of the holes. For an ordinary sized nursery tree, the holes should 

 be four or live feet across, and nearly as many deep ; the excess in depth to be filled up with 

 good earth provided for that purpose ; when all is ready place the tree in the center of the hole, 

 with the roots and fibres spread out horizontally or fan-shaped, and as the finely pulverized earth 

 is shoveled in, sliake the tree gently to admit the earth among the fibres. When the hole is filled 

 up to the proper level, the tree should not stand more than a couple of inches deeper than it did 

 before removal, which can be readily determined by the color of the bark. A stout stake to keep 

 the tree steady is highly useful, and if the ensuing warm weather be dry, give a little water from 

 time to time — or what is even better, protect the surface of the ground for a few feet around the 

 tree with litter, or any other material which will give shade and arrest evaporation. 



In the Carolinas and farther south, continue to plant peas and beans, transplant the remain- 

 ing cabbage plants from winter beds; remember that to have fine head cabbage or lettuce, very 

 rich land is requisite. Sow onions and leeks. Sow a few turnips, they may succeed. Plant po- 

 tatoes. Sow carrots and parsnips, if enough were not sown last month. Radishes may be sown 

 from time to time throughout this month. Sow small salading, such as mustard, cress, curled let- 

 tuce, at least once a fortnight. Sow parsley, if not enough. Sow tomatoes in a warm situation ; 

 the tomato-plants from the hot-bed may be set out. Sow peppers close of the month. Plant wa- 

 ter and citron melons. Plant cucumbers. Okra may novi' be planted, also squash and pumpkin- 

 seed. Beets and other root-crops sown last month will be advancing ; they should be thinned 

 and cultivated. Sow celery, spinach, fork or dress asparagus-beds, if not already done — set out 

 Btrawberry-beds. Artichokes, if not slipped and dressed last month, should be farther attended 

 to. Hoe and thin the turnips which were sown last month. Potatoes will now be coming for- 

 ward ; they .should be kept clean and earthed up. Weeds will now make their appearance — an 

 early application of the hoe will save much labor. 



Green-House and Flower-G.^rden Calendar — March. — Vinery, keep a high, moist tem- 

 perature, and syringe frequently. Geraidums water freely ; give them an airy situation, and as 

 near the glass as possible, to prevent drateing. Hyacinths, tulips and crocus, continue to water 

 freely, and tie the flower-stems to neat stakes — azaleas begin forcing; increa.se the supply of wa- 

 ter and air generally, fumigate frequently to destroy the green fly. Auwiah sow in hot-beds. — 

 Prune out-of-door Rcses. Lagcrstromece head down to four or five eyes, and give them an airy 

 situation. 



If any can be found at this day to doubt the great importance of having the 

 female mind better stored with useful knowledge, let him reflect for a moment on 

 their increasing agency in the great work of education, and his doubts must cease. 



In Massachusetts, where the subject of Education is best understood and most 

 efficiently provided for, the proportion of female over male teachers has been for 

 the last ten years constantly increasing, until now thenumber of female teachers, 

 we believe, more than doubles that of males, there being more than 5,000 of the 

 former so employed ; and as to their fitness for the task, it would be superfluous 

 to add to the opinion of the distinguished Secretary to their Board of Education, 

 who says on this point that he is well satisfied that the gain to the children in 

 mind and manners, under female instructors, has been in full proportion to the 

 economy that attends it. 



We should do injustice to our own feelings, not to say of Mr. Mann, in this 

 connection, that in any community having a just conception of the true sources 

 of civilization and social happiness, his services in the cause of Education entitle 

 him to stand in the front rank of public benefactors ; and yet were he in the 

 greatest extremity of need, it maybe doubted whether Congress would give him 

 a soldier's patent for a quarter section of land. Such is the wise and accurate 

 discrimination of the rulers of a Republican land. Even these female teachers, 

 whose labors are devoted to the instruction of the rising generation in the princi- 

 ples of knowledge and virtue, get but $13 50 per month, and find themselves; 

 while a common hireling in the trade of human slaughter gets his board and 

 clothes and $10 a month, and a farm of 160 acres of land, picked out of as many 



millions. 



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