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too powerful influence of the summer sun, which would absolutely 
detroy them, if left to its mercy. These frames will also be con- 
venient, for the laying of boards and mats over them, for the wmter 
protection of the plants; without which, most of them would perish. 
They may be either planted in small pots sunk in the earth, or in 
rows in the beds, ten inches asunder, and plant from plant, six inches 
distant in the row. Water them immediately, and give them 
shade for a few days. 
Planting deciduous Flowering and ornamental Shrubs. 
Such deciduous kinds of trees and shrubs as are yet to be re- 
moved, should be transplanted in the first week or ten days of the 
month, in the middle states, and not delayed longer in the eastern 
states, than the fifteenth. For the various kinds and methods of 
planting them, see page 301. 
Propagating Flowering Shrubs and Evergreens, 
For the methods of propagating all kinds of hardy flowering 
shrubs and evergreens, see the JVursery in March; and also the 
work of the JVursery in this month, June and July, &c. 
Planting Evergreens. 
Every kind of hardy evergreen trees and shrubs, may be removed 
in the beginning of this month, with the best possible success; but 
the earlier the better. See page 337. 
Neither the English broad-leaved laurel, Portugal laurel, sweet 
bay, Laurustinus, Arbutus or strawberry tree, nor the evergreen 
cypress, can withstand the severity of the winter frosts, in the mid- 
dle or eastern states, with very few exceptions, in the former; and, 
therefore, must in these places be treated as green-house plants. 
In most parts of the southern states, they succeed extremely well; 
but all kinds of trees and shrubs will, there, require to be planted 
much earlier in the season. 
In transplanting large evergreens, if the plants can be convenient- 
ly taken up, and brought with balls of earth about their roots, it 
should be done, placing them in the holes, with the balls entire: or 
previously, pour some water into each hole, and with your spade 
let it and the earth be worked up together, then plant the roots in the 
pap, and fill the earth in about them, tread it down gently, round the 
stem, and form it a little hollow at top, in order to retain about the 
roots, any water that may afterwards be given when necessary. 
Such as are not treated in this way, must have a plentiful water- 
ing, immediately after being planted, to settle and close the earth 
about the roots; and if some mulch is laid on the surface round 
each plant, it will be very serviceable in preventing the sun and 
wind from drying the earth too fast. 
