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OCT 



stems generally cleared from lateral require shelter only from frost whilst 

 shoots, hut never to shorten the lead- young, and by degrees become hardy 

 ing shoot unless it is decayed or bo- enough to live in the open air. Such of 

 comes very crooked, in which case it tlintn as are seedlings, in the open 

 may lie proper to cut it down low in grounds, should be arched over with 

 spring, and it will shoot out again — hoops or rods at the approach of winter, 

 training the main shoot for a stem, with in order to be sheltered with mats in 

 its top entire, for the present, till graft- i severe weather; and those which are in 

 ed or budded. I pots, either seedlings or transplanted 



Forest trees should also be encou- plants, should be removed in October, 

 raged to form straight clean stems by in their pots, to a warm sunny place, 

 occasional trimming of the largest late- sometimes sheltered with hedges, &c., 

 ral branches, which will also promote placing some close under the fences, 

 the leading top shoot in aspiring farther ficing the sun, where they may have 

 in height, always suffering that part of occasional covering, either of glass 

 each tree to shoot at full length, unless lights or mats, &c., from frost, observing 

 where the stem divides into forks — in , of all those sorts here alluded to that 

 which case trim otT the weakest, and i they are gradually to be hardened to the 

 leave the straightest and strongest shoot open ground, and need only be covered 



or branch to shoot out at its proper 

 length, to form the top. 



The different sorts of shrubs may 

 either be suffered to branch out in their 

 own natural way, except just regulating 

 very irregular growths, or some may 



in frosty weather. At all other times 

 let tliem remain fully exposed, and by 

 degrees, as they acquire age and 

 strength, inure them to bear the open 

 air fully, so that, when they arrive at 

 from two or three to four or five years 



be trained with single clean stems, from ' old, they may be turned out in the open 

 about a foot to two or three feet high, ground. — Ahcrcroinhie. 



Every winter or spring the ground 

 between the rows of all transplanted 

 plants, in the open nursery-quarters, 

 must be dug : this is particularly neces- 

 sary to all the tree and shrub kind that 

 stand wide enough in rows to admit the 

 spade between; which work is, by the 

 nurserymen, called turning-in, the most 

 general season for which work is any 

 time from October until March. But 

 the sooner it is done the more advan- 

 tageous it will prove to the plants. 



The ground is to be dug but half spade 

 deep, proceeding row by row, turning 

 the top of each spit clean to the bot- 

 tom, that all weeds on the surface may 

 be buried a proper depth to rot. 



In summer be remarkably attentive to 

 keep all clean from weeds. The seed- 

 lings growing close in the seminary-heds 

 must be hand-weeded ; but to all plants 

 that grow in rows introduce the hoe. 

 As any quarter or compartment of the 

 nursery-ground is cleared from plants, 

 others must be substituted in their room 

 from the seminary; but the ground 

 should previously be trenched and lie 

 some time fallow, giving it also the ad- 

 dition of manure if it shall seem proper. 



It will be of advantage to plant the 



NUTMEG. Myristira. 



NUTTALIA. Five species. Hardy 

 herbaceous. Seed and division. Sandy 

 peat. 



NUT-TREE. Corylus. See Filbert. 



NYCTANTHES arhortristis. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam and 

 peat. 



NYMPHyEA. Water-lily. Eighteen 

 species. Hardy and stove aquatics. 

 Seed or division. Rich loam in water. 



NYSSA. Four species. Hardy de- 

 ciduous trees. Seed and layers. Com- 

 mon soil in a moist situation. 



OAK. Qiterrus. 



OBESIA. Three species. Green- 

 house evergreen shrubs. Young cut- 

 tings. Sandy loam. 



O C H N A . Seven species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs, except the green- 

 house 0.flYro;jurpurea. Cuttings. Sandy 

 loam and peat. 



OCHROSIA horhonica. Stove ever- 

 green shrub. Cuttings. Rich light 

 loam. 



OCHRUS pallida. Hardy annual 

 climber. Seed. Common soil. 



OCTOBER is one of the gardener's 

 harvest months in tlie southern section 



ground with plants of a different kind of the Union ; in the middle and northern 

 from those which occupied it before, i states, his out-door labours are drawing 

 The tender or exotic plants of all kinds to a close. 



