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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. ; 3 
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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
These, iftaken 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 upland 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 the roots. 
ASPARAGUS. 
This plant, which is cultivated very extensively for the markets, 
requires that the soil be made very rich and ligit, 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 
sia the plants should be placed one foot apart each way 1n 
_ the beds. 
| et ae 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 particular 
notice:— 
Kean’s large Bath scarlet 
IXean’s Imperial New hautbois 
hoseberry, very productive Knights No. 14 
Large Downton Knights No, 6, largesé 
Black ; 
As beds of Strawberries generally want renewing every two or 
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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