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some kinds these buds decay and die away, but in gooseberries and 
currants they always rise in suckers, and from these others innu- 
merably; which always rob the fruit, and often render, even the best 
kinds not worth their room in the garden. 
Your cuttings being thus prepared, plant them in rows eighteen 
inches or two feet asunder, and about eight or nine inches apart in 
the rows, always inserting them at least six inches into the earth, 
and if the shoots are sufficiently long, eight or nine; leaving from 
four to ten inches according to circumstances, of a clean stem, be- 
tween the surface earth, and lowest left bud, upon which to estab- 
lish the head. Having had one or two years growth in these rows, 
they may be planted out, either in autumn, or early in spring, 
where intended for fruiting; but, autumn is the most preferable 
season. 
Gooseberries, of all other fruit-trees, require the richest soil. 
The situation should neither be too high, or too low, nor the soil 
much inclined to gravel or sand, a deep rich loam is their fa- 
vourite. Where this fruit is expected in the best perfection, the 
ground between and about the trees, must be kept free from weeds, 
and dug every spring and autumn, and strongly manured once a 
year with old well rotted cow-dung: they must be judiciously prun- 
ed, and each tree kept to a single stem, without any suckers; 
which must be dug up, or stripped off; whenever such appear. But 
all the culture on earth, will not produce good fruit unless you 
have good kinds; for there are crab gooseberries, as well as crab 
apples, and as great a variety of the one kind of fruit as of the 
other. 
THE PLEASURE, OR FLOWER-GARDEN. 
Hyacinths. 
THE choice kinds of Hyacinths, should now be protected from 
severe frost, for if permitted to penetrate so far into the soil, as to 
reach the bulbs, especially about the time that the plants begin to 
appear above ground, it will produce a singular effect, by causing 
some of them to shoot forth or discharge their stems or blossoms; 
but if at this time the roots become entirely frozen they are in dan- 
ger of being destroyed, or at least so weakened as to produce but 
indifferent flowers. 
