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five or six inches apart, and let the rows be at 

 the same distance from each other. Next 

 spring, take up every other plant, and put 

 them where they may be required, in the 

 borders. 



It is not advisable to plant pipings at once in 

 the borders, as on account of their small size, it 

 is easier to water a bed of them, than to look 

 for them among other plants, and they are 

 therefore better attended to when together. 



If you did not plant box edgings in the 

 spring, the latter end of the present month will 

 be the time when this should be done ; and 

 any edgings that have grow^n too thick, may be 

 divided. Slip the box plants, (each piece hav- 

 ing roots,) and plant them thick enough for the 

 shoots to touch each other, so as to form an 

 edging close enough to prevent the gravel get- 



