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and when arrived at tlie stage in whicli they may be planted, 

 they are drawn as they are wanted. Here also they keep 

 stocks of those plants which are raised by layering, bud and 

 graft stocks, with the more valuable species, the different 

 familes, whether fruit trees, shrubs, or ornamental timber. 

 The pubhc nurseries are those where all these things are done 

 for sale, but the different establishments give most room to 

 things for which the owners have become noted, as Eivers, of 

 Sawbridgeworth, and Lane, of Berkhampsted, for fruit trees 

 and roses in pots and open ground ; Chater, of Saffron 

 Waldon, and Bircham, of Bungay, for Hollyhocks ; Low, of 

 Clapton, and EolUsson, of Tooting, for Orcliids and stove- 

 plants ; Pince, of Exeter, and Jackson, of Kingston, for 

 Heaths and Camellias ; Dobson and Son, of Isleworth, for 

 Geraniums and Cinerarias ; Holland, of Middleton, for florists' 

 flowers ; Holmes, of Hackney and the Versailles Xursery, for 

 Chrysanthemums ; Harrison, of Darlington, Barnes, of Stow- 

 market, and Salter, of Hammersmith, for Dahlias ; and others, 

 who, taking pains to push particular branches of the trade, 

 give more attention to it, and perhaps serve the other members 

 of the trade. But all these that we have mentioned are 

 general nurserymen, and execute orders for everything in the 

 nursery trade. The business in the nursery trade goes on 

 just the same as in private nursery gardens, ordy that as 

 hundreds are operated upon at a commercial nursery, where 

 not half-a-dozen may be done in a gentleman's garden, there 

 is more system, a greater division of labour, and many addi- 

 tional facilities required. As to the management of a nursery 

 garden, there is nothing more than will be found in reading 

 the various directions for the propagation and cultivation of 

 the subjects in private establishments. A volume devoted to 

 the subject would only be repetitions of instructions to amateurs 

 and gardeners. No two nurseries are laid out alike ; nothing 

 is attempted but straight lines, parallel beds, plants at the 

 same distances as other people have, and a larger quantity. 



WnSTTER-FUEIS^SHLN'C FLOWER BEDS. 



Perhaps there is nothing more common in the very best 

 estabhshments than to see the flower gardens pretty nearly 

 abandoned to their fate after the first destructive frost. If 

 the families are present, the dead plants may be cleared 



