Oc"t.] F L vv E R Garden'. 48 i 



The pyracantha is alfo a pretty fhriib to plant againft 

 a wall, by realbn of its cluilers o£ beautifai red berries, 

 which make a handfome and very agreeable appearance 

 in autumn and in winter. 



I have ieen the arbutus, or ftravvberry tree, planted to 

 .hide a difagreeable looking wall. This is a beautiful 

 plant, and makes an agreeable figure in any place, and 

 at all feafon;, but particularly in this and the two pre- 

 ceding months, when it is loaded with its fine redilraw- 

 berry-like fruit. 



But thefe plants make the bell appearance when plant- 

 ed in the clumps or borders, &c. and fuifered to grow in 

 their natural way. 



Many people plant thefe fhrubs, detached or fmgly, 

 upon grafs lawns, &c. kept to fmgle clean flems, and 

 regular heads ; in which they have a beautiful effect. 



Pines and Firs. 



Pines and firs may* now be tranfplanted : thefe plants 

 may be fafely removed, and "planted in dry foils any 

 time in this month. 



This is alfo a good time to tranfplant cedars, juni- 

 pers, and cyprefs ; and mod other fuch like hardy ever- 

 green trees may alfo be now brought in and planted. 



General method of planting Trees and Shrubs, 



In planting the various kinds of fhrubs and trees in 



the fhrubbery, &c. one general method ferves for the 



whole ; open for every plant a hole wide enough to re- 



- ceive the roots freely every way ; when the hole is dug; 



to the due depth, let the bottom be well loofened. 



Then get the plants and prune the end of all long and " 



ilraggling roots; and cut away fuch roots as are broken, 



damaged cr dead : alfo any irregulariti-es of the head ; 



, then place the plant in the hole, and fee it (land upright; 



■ break-the earth well and throw it in equally, at the fame 



^ time (baking the plant gently to make the earth fall in 



clofe about, and among all the roots and fibres-; when 



all is in, tread the earth gently round the plant, and then 



let every one be diredly watered. 



But in planting the choice and more tender forts of 



evergreens, it will be proper to obferve that, when the 



Tilanti can be readily taken up and brought with balls of 



y earth 



