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dead leaves, and keep it in every way neat and clean. The 

 sashes must be regularly taken off in the morning and closed 

 at night, on fine days, until the cold weather appears, when 

 they must be left on at all times, excepting fine, mild days, 

 when they are to be taken off, in order to air and strengthen 

 the plants. 



When the weather sets in severe, the frame must be lined 

 around, two or three feet thick, and as high as the glass, wilh 

 hot horse manure ; and the lights must be regularly covered 

 at night with shutters, boards, mats, or the like, and uncovered 

 in the morning, unless the frost is too severe, in which case 

 the covering may be kept on all day. 



During the winter, the interior of the frame should often be 

 looked over, on a fine day, and divested of any dead leaves, 

 or other nuisance. As the spring advances, more air may be 

 given, and the plants hardened by degrees to plunge into the 

 flower garden, as directed under the proper head. 



CHAPTER IX. 



Tlie Shrubbery. 



THE shrubbery is so nearly allied to the flower garden, 

 that in a work professedly treating of the latter, a particular 

 notice of the former subject is required. Indeed it is rare 

 that a flower garden has a good and natural appearance with- 

 out the presence of the shrubbery, either in forming an out- 

 line on the margin, or occupying a prominent situation at the 

 end, for the convenience of a shady retreat, or other useful 

 purpose. Shrubs are either deciduous or evergreen; the 

 former are exemplified in the lilac, double flowering almond 

 and snowberry ; the latter in the Kalmia or American 

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