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partments for plants in soil, it would, perhaps, be sufficient, if a 

 trellis, such as described for the pot ground, went along the 

 southern end of each compartment. The north side of these 

 would afford many excellent situations in summer for carrying 

 on all the operations that require shade : some of the beds, pre- 

 pared with bog or peat earth, might be filled with young Ameri- 

 can plants, others appropriated to cuttings under glasses, and 

 others to young tender cuttings and seedlings removed from the 

 glasses and pots where they were raised. As for the other 

 parallel beds in the compartments, they should all be well pre- 

 pared at first, some with one kind of soil, and some with 

 another : however, the majority (say three to one) might be 

 dressed with a compost composed of nearly equal parts of 

 sound yet mellow loam, and vegetable matter (say equal parts 

 of peat and old leaf mould) ; to these may be added a little sand : 

 but these materials must, of course, be varied according to the 

 nature of the soil of which the garden is composed. A bed or 

 two should be made for growing small neat bushes of American 

 plants for forcing purposes, such as the various azaleas, the kal- 

 mias, the rhododendrons, rhodora, &c. &c. These beds should 

 be composed of about three parts of peat, and two parts of light 

 loam ; and, by frequent transplanting, a great number of little 

 miniature trees and bushes might be obtained, which would go 

 into small neat pots ; this would be found very useful, as Ameri- 

 cans, without this precaution, will require large, and unsightly 

 pots, for very small plants. Here, after being forced a season, 

 they may be again transplanted, and brought round for forcing 

 again, if necessary ; but more properly for decorating the shrub- 

 beries generally. 



In some of these compartments, the bulbous-rooted tribes, 

 which had been exhausted by forcing, might be turned out to 

 lay in a fresh stock of sap, with their foliage tied up and taken 

 care of; beds of roses also, of various kinds, coming on for forc- 

 ing and other purposes; and, in fact, all the articles I enume- 

 rated at the commencement of this paper, and many others 

 which I cannot think of at the present moment, would here be 

 found quite at home, with proper soils, climates, water, and 

 every thing necessary for their proper cultivation, close at hand, 

 forming a complete and systematic branch of horticulture within 

 itself. One thing I forgot to observe in its proper place (viz., as 

 connected with the pot compartment), that there are many her- 

 baceous plants, as well as, perhaps, annuals, and hot and green- 

 house flowers, which are too tall when grown in the ordinary way 

 for some kinds of flower beds ; such are the various tall phloxes, 

 aconitums, delphiniums, buphthalmums, helianthemums, asters, 

 and many others which do not occur to me at present; these, too, 

 are, many or most of them, late-flowering tribes, and therefore 



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