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ingly raised every year in the Nursery, of most 

 of the various kinds, so as to have it always 

 fully stocked with most kinds in different states 

 of growth ; some in seed-beds, others trans- 

 planted in nursery-rows ; some one year, others 

 two, three, or several vears : all of which should 

 be well attended lo, that there may be a suffici- 

 ency of plants of all sorts for furnishing every 

 different department of gardening as they may 

 be wanted. 



In public Nurserv-grounds, it is customary to 

 have convenient green-houses, glass-cases, and 

 stoves, with their proper appendages, for raising 

 tender exotics from the warmer parts of the globe, 

 \\ hich are always placed in the warmest and most 

 sunny situations, having their fronts directly fac- 

 ing the south, to have all possible benefit from 

 the sun's influence; which serve for raising and 

 nursing the various tender plants to a proper 

 grow th for furnishing other larger conservatories, 

 green-houses, &c. 



Size, Soil, ami Situation. In respect to the 

 extent or dimensions of Nurserv-grounds, they 

 should be according to the quantity of plants re- 

 quired, or the demand for sale : if for private 

 use, from a quarter or half an acre to five or six 

 may be proper, which should be regulated ac- 

 cording to the extent of the garden-ground and 

 plantations they are required to supply; and if for 

 public or general cultivation, not less than three 

 or four acres of land will be worth occupying, 

 and from that to fifteen or twenty acres, or 

 more, may be requisite, in proportion to the de- 

 mand. 



The soil for Nursery-grounds should be of 

 different qualities, in order that it may suit dif- 

 ferent sorts of trees and plants. 



Nursery-men generally prefer a loamy soil of a 

 moderately light nature: however, they maybe 

 formed of anvgood moderately light land, that has 

 fifteen or eighteen inches depth of good working 

 soil, but if two or three spades deep it will be the 

 better; and where there is scope of ground to 

 choose from, that where there is a eood depth, and 

 a naturally rich or good soil, should be preferred, 

 as the sol! of a Nursery cannot be too good, 

 notwithstanding what has been advanced to the 

 contraiy ; as where the soil is poor and lean, the 

 plants are mostly languid, weak, and stunted, 

 1:0 ait being able to improve them ; while those 



1 1 i in a good mellow soil always assume a free 

 ■ , • ili, and advance with strength and vigour. 

 It is not requisite, however, that the soil should 

 be very rich, nor over manured : a medium 

 1 en the two extremes is the most pro- 

 per, such as good mellow pasture land, having 

 the sward trenched to the bottom, which is ex- 

 p- 



edient for the growth of trees; and any similar 

 eligible soil of corn-fields is also extremely pro- 

 per : any other good soil of the nature of com- 

 mon garden-earth is likewise well adapted for a 

 Nursery-ground. 



As to situation ; where it is rather low than 

 high it is better, as being naturally warmer, and 

 more out of the power of cutting and boisterous 

 winds than a higher situation, though where 

 some parts of the ground are high and others 

 low, it may be an advantage, in better suiting 

 the nature of the different plants. It is also of 

 vast advantage to have Nursery-grounds fully 

 exposed to the sun and free air, and, if possible, 

 where there is the convenience of having water for 

 the occasional watering of young seedlings, and 

 newly removed plants. 



When for private use, where there is room, 

 Nursery -grounds mav either be entirely detached, 

 or contiguous to the outer boundaries of the 

 shrubbery plantations of the pleasure-ground, 

 and so contrived as to lead insensibly into it by 

 winding walks, so as to appear part of the gar- 

 den or shrubbery. 



Method of inclosing, preparing, and laying out. 

 In respect to the outside fence, it may either be 

 a hedge and ditch, or a paling; the former is the 

 cheapest, and most durable; though where hares 

 and rabbits abound paling fences are most 

 eligible. 



Paling, or other similar close fence, is how- 

 ever in general, for some part, extremely use- 

 ful to train young wall-trees to a proper growth 

 for garden-walls, &c. 



After thus fenced in, the ground should be all 

 rcgularlv trenched over one or two spades deep, 

 according to the natural depth of the soil ; after 

 which, proceed to divide it by walks into quarters, 

 and other parts ; letting a principal walk lead di- 

 rectlv through the middle or some principal part, 

 which may be from five to eight or ten feet wide, ac- 

 cording to circumstances, having a broad border 

 on eacli side : another walk should be carried all 

 round next the outward boundary, four or five 

 feet wide, leaving an eight or ten feet border 

 next the fence all the way ; dividing the internal 

 part by smaller cross walks, so as to form 

 the whole into four, six, or eight principal 

 divisions. 



One or more of these divisions should be ap- 

 propriated for the reception of all sorts of seeds, 

 for raising plants to furnish the other parts; 

 subdividing it into four feet wide beds, with 

 foot-wide alleys at least between bed and 

 bed. In these beds shouldi be sown seeds, 

 kc. of all such trees, shrubs, and herbaceous 

 plants as arc raised from seed ; and which should 



