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ASPARAGUS. 
“This plant, which is cultivated very P atemvely for the 
markets, requires that the soil be made very rich and light, 
and that it be made mellow tothe 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. 
As beds of these generally want renewing every three or 
four 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, 1t will be 
well to transplant them immediately after the ‘fruit has ma- 
tured. If, however, your beds are not encumbered with a 
* superfluous number of barren plants, this precaution will not 
be indispensably necessary ; though it is generally requisite 
with the English Hautboy, which is apt to produce a great 
proportion of barren-plants, and even without proper atten- 
tion, beds of this and of some other kinds will become almost 
totally unproductive. 
. CARNATION PINKS. 
These should be covered in winter with a box or frame, 
or taken up with balls of earth, and planted during the win- 
ter under a common hot-bed, with or without glass, as they 
bear cold, but not cold and moisture at the same time. 
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GREEN-HOUSE PLANTS. 
Among the plants which have hitherto been introduced to 
this country, none exceed those which have been received 
from China and Japan; in the former of which countries 
they are said to excel all other nations in the cultivation of 
flowers. It is also a happy circumstance, that nearly all the 
plants which have yet been received from either of those 
countries, are among the hardier kinds of Green-house plants, 
and succeed with very little attention ; and, indeed, a number 
of them are found to withstand the winters of the middle 
states. It being, therefore, so desirable an object to obtain 
all the valuable plants of those countries, arrangements have 
“been made to procure such as have already found their way 
to Europe, as well as to add annually to the collection by i ime 
portations direct from China, 
