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spring or autumn, by this method will be well rooted the autumn 

 twelve months after laying, and many kinds before the ensuing 

 winter. Virgin's bower, passion flowers, trumpet flowers, com- 

 mon jasmine, and most of the climbing plants root immediately 

 when laid in this way. For the various methods of performing this 

 operation, see page 289. 



After these are laid you should observe to water them occasion- 

 ally in dry weather, which will greatly promote their rooting. But 

 these waterings should not be too often repeated, nor too abun- 

 dantly given at a time, for that would rot the tender fibres as they 

 proceed from the layers; therefore the best method is to lay mulch on 

 the surface of the ground, after the layers are put down, to prevent 

 the sun from drying it too fast, then a little water will be sufficient, 

 and the layers will more certainly take root. 



Trim up Evergreens. 



Evergreens should now be trimmed up according to the uses for 

 which they are designed; for if you suffer them to grow rude in 

 summer, they cannot be so easily reduced afterwards; besides, the 

 ruder they grow the more naked they will be near the stems. 



Newly Grafted and Budded Trees. 



Take off the clay and loosen the bandages of your grafted trees, 

 and where any have made remarkably vigorous shoots and seem 

 to need support to protect them from the power of violent winds, 

 but more especially in exposed situations, let stakes be placed 

 thereto, and the shoots bound to them with strings of bass or such 

 like. 



The vigorous shoots from the buds inserted last season may, 

 under like circumstances, require similar support, which ought to 

 be given when deemed necessary. 



Be very particular to rub oft" such young shoots proceeding from 

 the stocks as are independent of the grafts or the inserted bud- 

 shoots; for those, if suffered to remain, would rob the grafts and 

 budded shoots of a great portion of nourishment, and therefore 

 ought to be displaced as often as they appear. 



Budding. 



Budding might now be practised on most kinds of trees and 

 shrubs, but when done at this time, the inserted buds, generally, 

 grow in the present year, and the shoots arising therefrom are much 

 weaker, and worse prepared to withstand the winter frost than those 

 produced in spring, from the buds inserted the preceding autumn; 

 and, in fact, such seldom make but indifferent trees. Therefore, 

 it will be much better not to attempt this work, except upon a few 

 roses or other shrubs, until the latter end of July and the autumnal 

 months, as hereafter directed. The method of performing the ope- 

 ration you will find in the Xursery for July. 



