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can be. Then, for the first time, let it be under- 

 stood that the pick may work in beneath, towards 

 the centre. The more earth that can be got to 

 adhere the better; but failing that, let the roots in 

 their new stance be spread in successive tiers, with 

 layers of fine mould interposed watering, staking, 

 and tying, as noticed in the planting of hollys. 



The following, not ever green, may be added ; 

 for though the former list may afford enough of 

 beauty for the winter, it will always be found that 

 the best assortment of evergreens have a certain 

 dullness in summer, unless relieved by deciduous 

 plants, which have brighter blossoms and livelier 

 tints of green. Wherefore have roses without 

 number the Ayrshire for sprawling over any thing 

 that ought to be hid, and the Indian, once the 

 tenant of a flowerpot, now the hardiest of garden 

 roses, bringing forth its sweet buds till they are nipt 

 in December. It is of the easiest multiplication 

 by slips: of a hundred, inserted in light soil with 

 a mixture of peatmoss, few will fail to become trees. 

 The mizereon, of pink or red or white blossom, 

 yielding the most delightful odours, but which must 

 be extirpated before infant hands have access to its 

 berries: the azelia of many sorts remarkable for 

 the brightness of its flowers, and deserving the best 

 shelter, with a soil aided by sand and peatmoss: 

 white broom, of spray-like figure, and in a good 

 summer almost as white as snow the seed may be 

 gathered and sown in a flowerpot for safety, but 

 neither slips nor layers do well: lilacs, of different 



