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YELLOW ROSES. 



Some complain that the double yellow Roses do not flower well ; 

 it is therefore proper to remark, that they require an airy situation, 

 and a gravelly soil, and that every autumn, one half of the old wood 

 should be cut down within four inches of the ground ; by this means 

 a succession of thrifty blooming shoots will be kept up. The single 

 yellow, and the red and yellow Austrian, it is well to treat in the 

 same manner, though they bloom freely in almost any soil, and with 

 little or no care. 



EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



These, if taken from the woods, should be planted in winter with 

 balls of frozen earth ; but, if taken from a nursery, where they have 

 been naturalized to an uplund soil, the preferable season for many 

 kinds is the spring, as some Evergreens fail when transplanted in 

 autumn, especially if the earth falls entirely from the roots, and the 

 frost penetrates to the earth below them when planted, which it 

 seldom fails to do in the northern and middle states ; this, however^ 

 may be remedied by strewing litter around them., to prevent the 

 frost penetating to tlxe roots* 



ASPARAGUS. 



This plant, which is cultivated very extensively for the markets, 

 requires tliat the soil be made very rich and light, and that it be 

 made mellow to the depth of eighteen or twenty inches. The 

 preferable mode of planting is in long narrow beds of about five feet 

 wide, and the plants should be placed one foot apart each way in 

 the beds. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Since the publication of the list of Strawberry plants at page 30, 

 I have succeeded in importing alive at the sixth effort, the follow- 

 ing new varieties, several of which, from their great size, produc- 

 tiveness, or flavour, have been figured and described in the trans- 

 actions of the London Horticultural Society, as worthy of pil^ticula!^ 

 notice : — 



Kean's large Bath scarlet 



Kean'3 Imperial New hautbois 



Hoseberry, very prochtc live Knights No. 14 



Large Dovvnton Knights No. 6, larg^est 



Black 



As beds of Strawberries generally want renewing every two op 

 three years, it will be necessary in forming the new beds to select 

 the plants in the proportion of nine bearing plants to one barren; 

 and, in order to do this with certainty, it will be well to transplant 

 them immediately after the fruit has matured. If, however, your 

 beds are not encumbered with a superfluous number of barren 

 plants, this precaution will not be indispensably necessary ; though 



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