VI INTRODUCTORY VIEW, 



TENSIVE DESIGNS. Here, I first premise, 

 that it is no saving for any gentleman to rear 

 his own nursery from seed ; although he may 

 profit, in a double point of view, by nursing 

 seedlings in this particular case. I after- 

 wards endeavour to investigate and solve the 

 very commonly-agitated question, Whether 

 trees should be nursed on SOIL and in SITU- 

 ATIONS corresponding with those on which 

 they are ultimately to be planted ? 



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I then point out the soil, situation, man- 

 ner of preparing, and otherwise improving 

 a nursery fit for the purpose in view ; toge- 

 ther with the rotation of crops, when occu- 

 pied, as advised, in the double capacity of 

 kitchen and nursery ground. After which, I 

 proceed to state the most simple method of 

 culture for each kind, with the season of 

 planting, training, &c. 



PLANTING, and the management of new 

 plantations, constitutes the fourth general 

 division ; in which I am particular through- 

 out On clearing, draining, ploughing, har- 



