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given in dry weather; and if they are watered as soon as planted, 
it will settle the earth about all the roots more eftectually, and pro- 
mote their fresh rooting; it would be of advantage in general, but 
more particularly to any of the more tender or curious shrubs, &c., 
to lay some long litter on the surface to preserve the moisture about 
the roots in dry weather. 
Immediately after planting fix stakes to such tall plants as 
require support, and let them be fastened thereto. 
Planting Evergreens, 
Evergreen trees and shrubs may be planted with good success 
any time this month in most of the southern states, but in the mid- 
dle states that should not be attempted before the last week therein, 
nor in the eastern states before the beginning or middle of April: 
these kinds are always most successfully planted when done imme- 
diately before their respective vegetations commence; which is a 
rule that ought to be carefully observed. See the Nursery and 
Pleasure Garden for next month. 
Planting Roses. 
You may plant roses any time this month that the weather will 
permit; and indeed there is a particular advantage in planting 
some every ten days, even to the middle of May, for the flowering 
of them may be retarded in this way, and the bloom of those 
delightful shrubs continued for a much longer period than if all were 
planted at the same time; but such as are planted after the twentieth 
of April, should the season prove dry, will require shade and water 
until they have taken fresh root. The early planting, however, will 
be the most successful in growth, and flower in greater perfection 
than the others. 
Planting Box Edgings. 
Box, of all other plants, makes the neatest and most beautiful 
edgings, and this is a very successful time to plant it, particularly 
in the middle states; in the other states it should be planted on the 
spur of the earliest spring vegetation; for although it is an ever- 
green, its taking and growing freely by slips or cuttings, causes it 
to agree with early planting better than those kinds that do not 
easily propagate in that way; and, moreover, it is very hardy and 
seldom injured by winter frosts. 
To make neat edgings you should get some short bushy box, and 
let it be slipped or parted into moderately small slips of not more 
than from eight to ten inches long; if any of them have roots or 
fibres, the better, but the cuttings or slips will all grow if planted 
early, and kept moderately and occasionally watered. The long 
woody roots of such as have them must be trimmed, and all the 
plants, slips or cuttings, made pretty much of a length. 
The method of planting is this: stretch your line, if for a straight 
