Jan.] FLOWER-GARDEN. 85 
border, and at night and in severe weather be covered with garden- 
mats, supported on arched hoops placed low over such bed or 
border. 
Seedling Flowers. 
Boxes or pots of any tender or choice kinds of seedling flowers 
should be covered in frosty weather, either with mats, long litter, 
fern, or the like, which should be laid a good thickness over 
them, and close round the sides; or remove them under a garden- 
frame and glasses, &c. which will be the better way. 
Likewise beds of the more tender and curious sorts of seedling 
flowers, in the common ground, should also be covered in hard 
frosts, with mats or long dry litter; but remove the covering when 
the weather is mild. 
Protecting Flowering-Shrubs. 
If you have hardy flowering-shrubs or ever-greens in pots, you 
should, to protect their roots from the frost, plunge the pots to their 
rims in the ground, if omitted doing in November or December, 
and cover the pots with some tan, leaves of trees, or dry litter; 
allotting them for this purpose, a dry warm situation, where water 
is not apt to stand. 
But any tenderer or more curious young ever-greens, &c. in pots, 
should have the protection of frames or occasional covering of 
mats, &c. in severe weather. 
Protect also, the roots of the choicer kinds of new planted flower- 
ing shrubs, and ever-greens from frost. This is done by laying dry 
mulchy litter on the surface of the ground, close round the lower part 
of the stem of each, as far as their roots extend, or rather farther. 
Likewise support such new-planted shrubs, as require it, with 
stakes, that they may not be displaced by the wind. 
Grass, and Gravel walks. 
The grass and gravel walks, should all . be kept in decent order, 
especially in the principal parts of the garden and pleasure ground; 
suffer no leaves of trees, or other litter to remain thereon, for such 
would give them an unbecoming appearance. 
SOUTHERN STATES. 
Where mild weather is now prevalent, and the ground not bound 
up by frost, you may plant all kinds of hardy deciduous trees and 
shrubs; and towards the latter end of the month, especially where 
smart frosts are not expected to follow, you may plant the different 
kinds of hardy ever-green trees and shrubs. 
Plant cuttings and make layers of such kinds as you wish to 
propagate by these methods: plant dwarf-box for edgings, which is 
