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remove to a warm situation. — Shrubs of 

 all kinds, plant; stake them as a sup- 

 port against boisterous winds. — Suckers 

 from Roses and other shrubs, separate 

 and plant. — Tulips, finish main plant- 

 ing, b. — Turf may be laid. 



HOT-HOUSE. 



Air, admit as freely as the season al- 

 lows. — Bark Beds, renew, if not done 

 last month. — Dress the borders, by fork- 

 ing, &c. — Fire Heat, by whatever means 

 it may be distributed, must now be dai- 

 ly employed. — Manure borders, &c., 

 in which forcing trees are planted. — 

 Leaves, clean with sponge, &c.; remove 

 those decayed. — Pines will require the 

 day temperature to be kept between 

 60^ and 65°. — Peaches, prune ; wash 

 with diluted ammonia water from the 

 gas works, before training; day tempe- 

 rature .50.° — Potted flowering plants, 

 introduce. — S^ea7n, admit into the house, 

 where that mode of heating is used. — 

 Strawberries, begin to force. — Tobacco 

 fumigations employ to destroy insects. 

 — Trees, in forcing, treat like the Peach. 

 — Water (tepid), apply with the syringe 

 to the leaves; give to their roots, occa- 

 sionally; keep in pans about the house. 



GREEN-HOUSE. 



Air, admit freely, when mild. — Chry- 

 santhemums require abundant watering. 

 — Damp stagnant air is more to be dread- 

 ed than cold. — Decayed parts, remove, 

 as they appear. — Earth, in pots stir fre- 

 quently. — Fires must be lighted, if frost 

 severe, or heavy cold fogs occur. — 

 Leaves, clean with sponge, &c. — Tem- 

 perature, keep at about 4.5°, but not 

 higher. — Water moderately. 



JSUPHAR. Five species. Hardy 

 aquatics. Division and seed ; ponds, 

 cisterns, &c. 



NURSERY is a garden or portion of 

 a garden devoted to the rearing of trees 

 and shrubs during their early stages of 

 growth, before they are of a size desired 

 for the fruit or pleasure grounds. As 

 every tenant of the nursery is separate- 

 ly discussed in these pages', no more is 

 required here than to make a few ge- 

 neral observations. 



Extent, Soil, Situation, Src. — With 

 respect to the proper e.xtent of a nurse- 

 ry, whether for private use, or for pub- 

 lic supply, it must be according to the 

 quantity of plants re(iuired, or the de- 

 mand for sale ; if for private use, from 



a quarter or half an acre to five or six 

 acres may be proper, which must be 

 regulated according to the extent of 

 garden ground and plantations it is re- 

 quired to supply with the various sorts 

 of plants, and if for a public nursery, 

 not less than three or four acres of land 

 will be worth occupying as such, and 

 from that to fifteen or twenty acres, or 

 more, may be requisite according to 

 the demand, though some occupy forty 

 or fifty acres in nursery ground. A 

 nursery may be of any moderately light 

 land, that is fifteen or eighteen inches 

 depth of good working staple; but if 

 two or three spades deep, it will be 

 the greater advantage. A good fresh 

 fat soil, such as any good pasture, which 

 having the sward trenched to the bot- 

 tom is excellent for the growth of trees, 

 a rich soil fit for corn is also extremely 

 proper, or any other good soil of the 

 nature of common garden earth is also 

 very well adapted for a nursery. As to 

 situation ; if this is rather low it will be 

 better, because it is naturally warmer, 

 and more out of the power of cutting 

 and boisterous winds than a higher 

 situation, though if it happens where 

 some parts of the ground are high and 

 some low, it is an advantage, the bet- 

 ter suiting the nature of the different 

 plants. It is also of advantage to have 

 a nursery ground fully exposed to the 

 sun and air, and where there is the 

 convenience of having water, for the 

 occasional watering. 



Mode of Arranging the Plants. — In 

 the distribution of the various sorts of 

 plants in the nursery, let each sort be 

 separate, in lines or nursery rows, to 

 stand till arrived at a proper growth for 

 drawing off for the garden and planta- 

 tions, placing the fruit trees, stocks, 

 &c., for graftmg and budding upon, in 

 rows two feet asunder, and half that 

 distance in the rows, varying the dis- 

 tance both ways, according to the 

 time they are to stand ; the shrub kind 

 should likewise be arranged in rows 

 about two feet asunder, and fifteen or 

 eighteen inches distant in each line; 

 and as to herbaceous plants, they should 

 generally be disposed in four feet wide 

 beds, in rows from six to twelve or 

 eighteen inches asunder, according to 

 their nature of growth, and time they 

 are to stand. 



General Culture. — Those designed as 

 stocks for fruit-trees should have their 



