THE FLOWER GARDEN. 



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and interesting plants, will not consider it a task to watch over 

 their welfare from this time till the return of spring, when 

 their attention will be amply repaid by the elegance, the per- 

 fection, and simplicity of their varied blossoms. 



TRANSPLANTING PERENNIAL PLANTS. 



Continue to transplant into the borders where they may be 

 required, all herbaceous plants propagated during the season, 

 as they become sufficiently strong, but those which are not 

 now sufficiently stout should be left till spring ; for, if they 

 be now planted, they might not be sufficiently established be- 

 fore the winter, unless the autumn should be mild. 



Those herbaceous plants which may have finished flower- 

 ing, and may have overgrown the bounds prescribed for them, 

 may be divided or reduced in size, and planted out, where they 

 are to remain. 



TRANSPLANTING FLOWERING SHRUBS. 



Many hardy deciduous flowering shrubs may be planted by 

 the end of the month, particularly such as may have by that 

 time shed their foliage or finished their year's growth. From 

 that time, till the end of March, this operation may be safely 

 performed if the weather permit. 



Shrubs for particular purposes, which have been planted by 

 the end of this month, or perhaps earlier, should have re- 

 peated waterings given them, both at their roots and over-head, 

 particularly if the season be dry and the soil light and sandy. 

 By this early planting, under favorable circumstances, the 

 plants will take root this autumn, and go on in spring, as if 

 they had sustained no check. 



PLANTING EVERGREENS. 



Evergreens may be now planted, observing, if the weather 

 be not showery, to give copious waterings at their roots, and 

 also over their tops, by applying water from the garden-engine 

 two or three times a-week, preferring the afternoon or evening 

 for that purpose. 



