THE FLOAVER GARDEN. 



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AUGUST. 



PLANTING EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



This is a season when most evergreens may be removed with 

 success, particularly if the weather should be moist ; if not, 

 recourse must be had to the watering-pot and garden-engine. 

 Box edgings and evergreen hedges may also now be cut or 

 trimmed, if not done last month. Large evergreens may also 

 be headed down, and all that are in want of pruning may now 

 be done with propriety. 



PROPAGATING EVERGREEN SHRUBS, &C. 



Evergreen shrubs are propagated by layers, cuttings, &c. 

 To obtain handsome specimens of these, as well as of all other 

 trees and shrubs, we have already observed that propagation 

 by seeds is to be preferred. However, for many purposes 

 for which evergreens are used, such as forming underwood in 

 plantations and cover for game, plants originated by laying or 

 from cuttings are generally used. At this season, cuttings may 

 be successfully put in, but the sooner in the month the better, 

 that the plants may be rooted before the approach of winter ; 

 for this purpose, cuttings of the young wood should be planted 

 in a shaded situation, in beds of common garden-mould, and 

 as thick in the bed as convenient to plant them. The cuttings 

 should not be shortened, neither should any of the leaves be 

 taken off' nor shortened, unless such as would be buried in 

 the ground. The cuttings may be from a foot in length, or 

 longer, to three or four inches, according to circumstances ; 

 and being well fixed in the mould, and occasionally wa- 

 tered, will soon emit roots, and be by this time next year in 

 fit order to plant out into nursery-lines, to attain a size fit for 

 planting out where they may be afterwards required. 



