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the trade, and the wonder is that trees of the size and quality 

 usually supplied can be turned out at such moderate prices. 

 In fact, on small estates a home nursery is not necessary when 

 satisfactory arrangements can be made with the nurseryman, 

 so far as cost is concerned, and no doubt public nurseries will 

 continue to supply a very large proportion of the /forest trees 

 planted in this country, especially broad-leaved deciduous 

 species, which are much more easily and safely handled than 

 the fir and pine species. The losses sustained among broad- 

 leaved stock are often great, because, even when frequently 

 transplanted, they grow up quickly, and becoming crowded 

 in the rows, numbers of the weaker plants perish ; whereas, 

 trees from a public nursery can be had as they are required 

 of a suitable size for planting out in the woods at once. The 

 main danger to conifers got from a distant nursery is injury 

 from exposure and delay between the lifting of the plants and 

 their delivery to the buyer, and the remedy for this is to give 

 orders in good time, and, where practicable, to see them 

 executed. Nurserymen are always pleased to afford every 

 facility in that way to customers. 



The home nursery should be large enough to hold a suffi- 

 cient stock of trees of the species intended to be used on the 

 estate, and which should always be coming on in successional 

 batches from; one year's seedlings up to the planting-out 

 stage, which is from two to four years of age, as a rule, 

 according to the kind of ground to be planted and the species. 

 The position of .the nursery should be open and exposed on 

 all sides except the north, as young trees removed from a 

 sheltered spot to the open country, or perhaps a bleak hillside, 

 suffer a severe check and often die outright. The mere 

 removal from the sheltering nursery lines, though the nursery 

 may be exposed, is of itself always trying to young trees the 

 first year. Coddling of the trees in any form should be 

 avoided. 



SECTION II. STOCKING. 



As regards the stocking of the nursery, it is hardly worth 

 the forester's while to raise his comparatively small quantities 

 of the commoner trees from seed, because he can purchase first 

 year's seedlings better and cheaper than he can raise them at 

 home. The nursery trade know this, and not a few of our 

 large nurseries are supplied in this way by other nurserymen 

 whose speciality is raising seedlings for the trade. These one- 



