68 OF PROPAGATION. SECT. VI, 



The feafon for layers is (generally) the fame as for 

 cuttings, and forne forts will be well rooted in a year, 

 but others will require two, and fometimes three 

 years before they will be fit to be moved. Thofe, 

 however, that are flow to {hike fhouldbe layered as foon 

 as ever young (hoots are forward enough, which may 

 be in July or Augujl. This practice is particularly 

 recommended for the phyllerea and alaternus. Cut off 

 the leaves of the part that goes into the ground, becaufe 

 Tuch young wood will not well bear firipping. For 

 propagation of fruit trees by g raffing, fee the two next 

 Actions* 



SECTION VI. 



OF A NURSERY. 



THERE are fomany refpe&able nurfery-men ready 

 to fupply our wants, that the neceffity of a nurfery 

 is in a great meafure done away; it affords, however, 

 employment, amufement, and an opportunity for exer- 

 cising ingenuity, and that particularly in the way of 

 graffing. 



By means of a nurfery, trees are ready upon the 

 /pot, to be tranfplanted without damage to the roots 

 from being long out of the ground, and the climate and 

 foil being the fame in which they are raifed and are to 



grow, 



