370 TToe Gardeners Kale7idar. Dec. 

 weather they (hould have as much free air as 

 poffible \ other wife they will draw up weak, 

 and become very tender. 



Lay fome mulch about the roots of new 

 planted trees and flirubs, as alfo about exotick 

 trees, which are planted in the open air, to 

 prevent the froft h-om penetrating the ground 

 to their roots, which would greatly injure, if 

 not deftroy them. 



Turn over the feveral heaps of earth which 

 are prepared for the flower-garden, that the 

 froft may m.ellow them ; and mix up fome 

 new heaps, that there may be a quantity always 

 prepared eight or ten months, at leaft, before 

 it is ufed. 



In mild weather dig and prepare beds and 

 borders ready for planting flower roots in the 

 fpring; in doing of which, it will be proper 

 to lay the earth up in a ridge, that the heavy- 

 rains may run ofi^, which would render the 

 earth too wet for planting, if the beds w^ere 

 laid flat to receive all the moifture. 



Continue to dig up the ground in the wi!- 

 dernefs quarters, that the whole may be ren- 

 dered neat againft the next fpring, when the 

 trees begin to hud, and the flowers blow, which 

 will invite perfons to walk out; but in doing 

 of this, there mud be care taken not to injure 



any 



