58 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



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CHAP. ILL 



ON NURSING SEEDLINGS FOR EXTENSIVE DESIGNS.* 



SECTION I. 



Situation and Soil of the Nursery- 



SO much hath been said concerning the 

 question, Whether a nursery should be 

 on soil, and in situation corresponding with 

 those on which the trees are ultimately to be 



* I say for extensive designs, because experience hath 

 taught me, that otherwise it is no saving for any gentle- 

 man to rear nursery. I confine myself to the nursing of 

 seedlings only\ on the same principle ; and from indis- 

 putable proofs, demonstrated both by myself and my fa- 

 ther (who had, perhaps, as much experience in that line 

 as most men of his time), and several of my intimate 

 friends, who have made impartial trials for ascertaining 

 how far it might be to a gentleman's advantage to rear 

 his own nursery from seed. 



We have all found it unprofitable, and attended with 

 considerable perplexity. A thing not at all to be won- 

 dered at, when we reflect on the multiplicity of business 

 at that season most critical, not only for insuring success 

 in this branch, but all others of gardening, namely, the 

 spring. 



