( 1*3 ) 



will keep the ground moist, and prevent the grass and weeds 

 forming a sod, observing to have the earth hollowed a little 

 when the litter is placed there. The ground should be 

 turned over and mellowed in autumn, and any trees or shrubs 

 that are observed to become mossy or bark-bound, should 

 have the bodies brushed over in April with common soft 

 soap. With this management, they will make more pro- 

 gress in three years than they would in six or seven years 

 in the common way. 



Evergreen Trees and Shrubs. 



These, if taken from the woods, should be planted in win- 

 ter with balls of frozen earth ; but if taken from a nursery, 

 where they have been naturalized to an upland soil, the pre- 

 ferable season for many kinds is the spring, as some ever- 

 greens fail when transplanted in autumn in a northern cli- 

 mate, especially if the earth falls entirely from the roots, and 

 the frost penetrates to the earth below them when planted, 

 which it seldom fails to do in the northern and middle states; 

 this, however, may be remedied by strewing litter around 

 them, to prevent the frost penetrating to the roots. 



ROSES* 



No class of plants, so easy of culture as this, yields more 

 intrinsic delights to the amateur ; the diversity of size, colour, 

 fragrance, and form, have been varied by art to an almost in- 

 finite degree; and in the collections of Europe, above 1,400 

 varieties are enumerated* Since the catalogue of the au- 

 thor's establishment was put to press, above 100 new varie- 

 ties have been received, and the collection now exceeds 600 

 varieties, including 100 kinds of China and India Roses, and 

 15 varieties of the Moss Rose. Enduring, as most of them 

 do, the rigour of the severest winters uninjured, and yielding 

 with so little attention such a rich accumulation of beauty 

 and fragrance, every garden should possess at least all the 

 more conspicuous varieties of this unrivalled flower ; and it 

 is hoped, ere long, we shall see the fashion followed in this 

 country, which has for years prevailed in England, of train- 

 ing the hardy climbing varieties of the Chinese and other 



