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DYERS' MADDER. 

 This plant, of so much importance in manufactures, 

 and of which we have annually to import large quanti- 

 ties from Holland, will succeed in this country as well 

 as in any part of Europe. It will thrive in any soil ex- 

 cept a sand, and would amply remunerate those who 

 would undertake its cultivation on a large scale, as the 

 daily increase of our manufactories will cause an en- 

 larged demand for this indispensable article, 



YELLOW ROSES. 

 Some complain that the double yellow Roses do not 

 flower well; it is therefore well to remark, that they 

 require an airy situation, and a light rich 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, red and yellow Austrian, and yellow mot- 

 tled, 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 up- 

 land soil, the preferable season is the spring, as many 

 Evergreens fail when transplanted in autumn, especi- 

 ally if the earth falls entirely from the roots, and the 

 frost penetrates the earth below them when planted, 

 which it seldom fails to do in the northern and middle 

 States. 



ASPARAGUS. 

 This plant, which is cultivated very extensively for 

 the markets, requires that 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. 



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