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ing the winter, and the selection of early fruit, &c. are 

 only necessary for the climate north of the Potomac; for 

 in the more southern States, no protection of course is 

 necessary, and all the later kinds of Grapes may be 

 cultivated with every reasonable prospect of success ; 

 but all the other directions relative to pruning, training, 

 manuring, &c. will be found necessary as well 'in a 

 southern as in a northern clime. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



This is a fruit generally planted, but from the neces- 

 sary culture not being understood, few succeed in hav- 

 ing them produce plentifully, and th< 1 fruit fair and of 

 good size* To effect which, one third of the old wood 

 must be regularly trimmed out every autumn, by which 

 means a succession of thrifty bearing wood will be kept 

 up, as the fruit is produced on the young shoots of the 

 previous year's growth, and it is also necessary every 

 autumn to dig in a plenty of old well rotted manure 

 around them. This treatment will cause them to grow 

 strong, and the fruit to be large and fair. 



ORNAMENTAL FOREST TREES AND SHRUBS. 



For all hardy Forest trees, except Evergreens, autumn 

 is the preferable season for transplantation ; if taken 

 from a nursery, they are naturalized to an Upland soil, 

 but if taken from the woods or swamps, they should be 

 planted in soil similar to that from which they are re- 

 moved. Forest as well as Fruit trees, to cause them to 

 grow thrifty, require the ground to be kept cultivated 

 around them ; and when the bodies become bark-bound 

 or mossy, they should be brushed over with soft soap, as 

 directed for Fruit trees, especially the Mountain Ash, 

 which sometimes becomes covered with white insects 

 and their eggs ; these should be scoured off first, before 

 the soap is applied, or at the time of applying it. 



