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Mimulus —The animal species, as Jloribundus, fyc. should be thin¬ 
ned out, or they are liable to damp off. 
Passiflora kermesina and other species, may be propagated by 
cuttings in the beginning of the month. 
Ranunculuses now planted will flower in August. 
Rose Trees. —Cuttings of the China and its varieties will strike 
well, if put in early in the month under a hand-glass, or a somewhat 
shady border in light soil. The Common Roses which were left 
unpruned to obtain late flowers, should now have their old wood cut 
back below, when the young shoots have pushed, and the lower buds 
will push anew and produce flowers very late. 
Violets. —This is the best time to make new beds of violets, by 
planting the runners. 
ARBORICULTURE. 
ARTICLE XIX.—PLANTING FOREST-TREES IN HIGH SITUATIONS, 
WHERE THEY ARE MUCH EXPOSED TO THE SUN. 
BY GEORGE STAFFORD. 
It always gave me considerable trouble of mind to see so many 
plants perish in these situations in the first, second, and third years 
after planting. Having,in the early part of my life, been very ex¬ 
tensively employed in planting in similar situations, and at a period 
when the mania for shallow planting was little known, I beg to add 
a few remarks on the subject, being at the same time well aware that 
some will go far enough to call it Idiotism. 
The practice, at the period stated, was to prepare the holes either 
in the autumn or some time previous to putting in the plants, at. 
which time a precaution was always taken to put the plant deep 
enough in the hole to insure it a sufficient covering of earth above 
the principal roots, in case of dry weather in spring or summer, by 
which precaution very few plants failed, but were kept sufficiently 
moist through the summer. To ensure success, of course the best 
and most proper earth should be selected to come in contact with the 
roots, and that of a more crude nature laid on the surface. In these 
refined days this would be termed erroneous; but find me one tree 
of any species that has either been planted by nature or man, which 
has not corrected itself in this respect. 
If we examine a whole forest containing all the known species in 
this country, we shall find that the very principal roots have been 
raised by their own efforts from two to three feet in height, and those 
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