March.] FLOWER GARDEN. 3O3 



given in dry weather; and if they are watered as soon as planted, 

 it will settle the earth about all the roots more effectually, and pro- 

 mote their fresh rooting; it would be of advantage in general, but 

 more particularly to any of the more tender or curious shrubs, &c, 

 to lay some long litter on the surface to preserve the moisture about 

 the roots in dry weather. 



Immediately after planting fix stakes to such tall plants as 

 require support, and let them be fastened thereto. 



Planting Evergreens. 



Evergreen trees and shrubs may be planted with good success 

 any time this month in most of the southern states, but in the mid- 

 dle states that should not be attempted before the last week therein, 

 nor in the eastern states before the beginning or middle of April: 

 these kinds are always most successfully planted when done imme- 

 diately before their respective vegetations commence; which is a 

 rule that ought to be carefully observed. See the Nursery and 

 Pleasure Garden for next month. 



Planting Roses. 



You may plant roses any time this month that the weather will 

 permit; and indeed there is a particular advantage in planting 

 some every ten days, even to the middle of May, for the flowering 

 of them may be retarded in this way, and the bloom of those 

 delightful shrubs continued for a much longer period than if all were 

 planted at the same time; but such as are planted after the twentieth 

 of April, should the season prove dry, will require shade and water 

 until they have taken fresh root. The early planting, however, will 

 be the most successful in growth, and flower in greater perfection 

 than the others. 



Planting Box Edgings. 



Box, of all other plants, makes the neatest and most beautiful 

 edgings, and this is a very successful time to plant it, particularly 

 in the middle states; in the other states it should be planted on the 

 spur of the earliest spring vegetation; for although it is an ever- 

 green, its taking and growing freely by slips or cuttings, causes it 

 to agree with early planting better than those kinds that do not 

 easily propagate in that way; and, moreover, it is very hardy and 

 seldom injured by winter frosts. 



To make neat edgings you should get some short bushy box, and 

 let it be slipped or parted into moderately small slips of not more 

 than from eight to ten inches long; if any of them have roots or 

 fibres, the better, but the cuttings or slips will all grow if planted 

 early, and kept moderately and occasionally watered. The long 

 woody roots of such as have them must be trimmed, and all the 

 plants, slips or cuttings, made pretty much of a length. 



The method of planting is this: stretch your line, if for a straight 



