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the place handsomely, and at the same time to produce as much and 

 as good fruit as possible, by not permitting the leading branches or 

 shoots to crowd together, but to spread evenly and thin over the 

 whole place: this must be done by judicious pruning and careful 

 training, always bearing in mind the preceding general directions. 

 For the methods of propagating and planting grape-vines, and 

 the various kinds thereof, see the Vineyard in March. 



SOUTHERN STATES. 



This will be a principal time for propagating vines, by cuttings, 

 layers, &c, and planting vineyards in most of the southern states: 

 for the methods of doing which, see the Vineyard in March. 



THE NURSERY. 



ICT^The various instructions given in the course of this month, 

 for the nursery, as far as they relate to work which is to be done 

 in the open ground, are on the presumption that the severe winter 

 frosts, have, towards the end of the month, disappeared, and that 

 the ground at that time is in a fit state for cultivation; at least, 

 sufficiently so for the reception of plants of a very hardy nature, 

 and such as, if planted, could receive no injury whatever from any 

 subsequent frost or severity of weather, and that will succeed better 

 by taking the earliest possible advantage of the season: moreover, 

 it is the better way to have as much of your business done at as 

 early a period as possible, the better to enable you to meet the 

 great pressure, which, with respect to planting, sowing, grafting, 

 &c. &c. must be attended to in March. 



But when the weather in the latter end of this month is severe, 

 or the ground bound up by frost, there is no alternative but to 

 defer the business till the arrival of a more favourable period. 



Propagating by Cuttings, fyc. 



Plant cuttings of gooseberries and currants according to the rules 

 laid down in next month and in October; these will form tolerable 

 branchy heads by the end of summer, and will produce fruit in a 

 year or two after. 



Be careful to train these trees always with a single stem, six or 

 eight to ten or twelve inches high before you form the head. 



Plant also cuttings of honey-suckles, and other hardy flowering 

 shrubs and trees; as many different sorts may be propagated by that 

 method. 



The cuttings must be shoots of the former year's growth: choose 

 such as have strength, cutting them from the respective trees and 

 shrubs in proper lengths; or long shoots may be divided into two 



