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from about three to four or five inches deep, 

 into the alleys, then placing the roots in rows 

 upon the surface, thrusting the bottoms a little 

 into the ground, and immediately covering them 

 with the" earth which was drawn off into the 

 alleys, spreading it evenly over every part, so as 

 to bury all the roots to an equal depth in the 

 soil. 



The tender kinds of exotic plants, that require 

 occasional shelter whilst young, should many of 

 them be potted, in or ler for moving to warm 

 ttlons in winter ; or some into frames, ice. 

 to have occasional shelter from frost, by glasses 

 or mats, as they may require ; hardening' them, 

 however, by degrees to bear the open air fully 

 in the Nursery the year round. And the most 

 tender kinds, that require the aid of a green- 

 house or stove, should all be potted, and placed 

 in their proper situations. See Gbeen-House 

 and Stove Plants. 



General Culture of the Plants. — In the manage- 

 ment of the various hardy Nursery-plants, those 

 intended as stocks or fruit-trees, should have 

 their items generally cleared from lateral shoots, 

 so as to form clean straight stems, but never to 

 shorten the leading shoot, unless it is decayed, 

 or becomes very crooked, in which case it may 

 be sometimes proper to cut it down low in 

 spring, to shoot out again, training the main 

 shoot for a stem, with its top entire, till grafted 

 or budded. See Grafting, Budding, and 

 Training. 



But in the culture of the fruit-tree kind, the 

 sorts designed for principal wall-trees, particu- 

 larly such as peaches, nectarines, apricots, ccc. 

 should, when of one year's growth from graft- 

 ing and budding, be planted against some close 

 fence, as a wall, paling, reed -hedge, &c. and 

 their first graft or bud-shoot headed down in the 

 spring, to promote an emission of lower lateral 

 bhoots and branches, in order to be regularly 

 trained to the fence in a spreading manner for 

 two or three years, or till wanted, to form the 

 head in a regular spreading growth, which in 

 public grounds of this kind should always be 

 readv in proper training, to supply those who 

 niav wish to have their walls covered at once 

 by such ready trained trees. And a similar train- 

 ing, both for wall and espalier fruit-trees, "may 

 be practi-ed with some principal sorts in the 

 Nursery-rows in the open quarters of the ground, 

 by directing their branches, in a spreading man- 

 ner, to stakes placed for the purpose. 



Standard fruit-trees should only be trained 

 with a clean single stem, five or six feet for full 

 standards, by cutting off all lateral shoots 

 arising below : half-standards should be trained 



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with three- or four-feel stems, and dwarf stand- 

 ards in proportion bv the same means. 



The hi ads i I the standards in some m.iv be 

 directed by having the first immediate shoot-- 

 from the graft or bud, when a year old, pruned 

 short in spring, to procure lateral shoots, in or- 

 der to form a fuller spread of branches, proceed- 

 ing regularly together from near the summit of* 

 the steins, and thus give a more regular branchy 

 growth to them. 



Forest-trees should, in genera!, be encouraecd 

 to form straight clean single stems, hy occasional 

 trimming off the largest lateral branches, which 

 also promotes the leading top-shoots in rising 

 straight, and faster in height ; always suffering 

 that part of each tree to shoot at full length ; that 

 is net to top it, unless when- the stem divides into 

 forks, when the weakest should be trimmed off, 

 and the strajghtest and strongest shoots or 

 branches left to shoot out at their proper Ln<nh 

 to form the aspiring tops. 



The different sorts of shrubs should raostlv 

 be suffered to bianch out in their own natural 

 way, except merely regulating very disorderly 

 growths; and some sorts maybe trained with 

 single clean stems, from about one foot to 

 two or three high, according as may be thought 

 proper. But shrubs in general appear the 

 most agreeable when permitted to shoot out la- 

 terally ail the way, so as to be branchy or feather- 

 ed to the bottoms of the stem*. 



The fruit-trees in each species should, a- =oonas 

 grafted or budded, have all the different varieties 

 numbered, by placing large fiat-sided sticks at the 

 ends of the row s, for which purpose the spokes 

 of old coach-wheels, or any thing about that size 

 of any durable wood, answers very well, paint- 

 ing or marking upon them the numbers, and 

 entering them in the Nurserv-book, with the 

 name of the varieties to which the number-sticks 

 are placed; by which, at all limes, a ready re- 

 course may be had to the sorts w anted. 



And it is useful to employ the same means to 

 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, especially 

 the varieties of particular species, when they are 

 numerous, such as in many of the fiowerv tribes ; 

 as auriculas, carnations, tulips, anemones, ra- 

 nunculuses, ike. 



Watering Nursery-plants is very requisite in 

 dry hot weather, in sprint; and summer; such ai 

 seed- beds and tender seedling-plants,while young, 

 and when first planted out, till they have taken 

 good root ; also, occasionally, to new -laved layers 

 and newly-planted cuttings in dry warm weather; 

 but as to hardy trees and shrubs of all sort-, 

 when planted out at the proper time, as not ton 

 late in the spring, no great rcgurd need be paiJ 



