Feb.] Flov/er Garden. 89 



litter ; for neatnelii in thofe parts of the garden is agree- 

 able at all times, but more particularly at tiiis feafon, 

 when the flowers and plants of moll kinds are beginning 

 to pufh. 



Therefore, let the furface of the beds and boi-ders be 

 lightly and carefully loofened with a hoe, in a dry day, 

 and let them be neatly raked, wiiich will give an air of 

 livelinefs to the furface, and the whole will appear neat 

 and very pleafmg to the eye," and will be well worth the 

 labour. 



Likewife if any borders, beds, &c. were not digged hifl 

 autumn or winter, it Ihould now be done, ready for flower 

 plants, feeds. Sec. and that the whole may appear frefli 

 and lively. 



P rune FIo-iveriftg-fi>ruhs, 

 FJnifh pruning fiowering-lhrubs, and evergreens, 

 'wheie they v/ant it. 

 . Jn doing this work, obferve to cut out all dead wood; 

 and where any of the branches are too long, or grow 

 flraggling, let them be fliortened, or cut oit clofe, as you 

 fhall fee it neceiTary ; and likewife, where the branches 

 of difl'erent flirubs interfere or run into each other, let 

 them be cut fhorter, fo that every fhrub may Hand fmgly 

 and clear one of another; then all the diiferent fhruhs 

 will fnew themfelves dilHndly and to the bell advantage. 



When the flirubs are pruned, let the cuttings be cleared 

 away, and then let the ground be neatly dug between and 

 about all the plants, cbferving to take off all fuckers 

 arifmg from the roots : nothing looks better in a garden, 

 than to fee the ground neat and frefli between flowering- 

 (hrubs and evergreens. 



Planting Floivering-Jhrubs. 



Moil forts of flowering-flirubs may now be fafely re- 

 moved any time in this month when it is open weather. 



But particularly the gelder rofe, fyringas, laburnums, 

 lilacs, honey-fuckles, rofes, fpirss, aiths frutex, hyperi- 

 cum frutex, Perfian lilac, double-bloflbm cherry, double- 

 bramble, cornelian cherry, and double hawthorn ; you 

 may likewife plant bladder-fena, fcorpion-fena, privet, 

 Spanifli broom, jafmines, fumach, cytifufes, and acacias; 

 and many other forts of hardy plants, m^vy now be fafely 



tranfplanted. 



