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planted? that I should deem it unpardonable 

 to pass this subject in silence. I will briefly 

 deliver my own opinion, hoping the candid 

 reader will apply or reject what agrees with, 

 or stands opposed to his. 



If the soil and situation whereon the trees 

 are ultimately to be planted be good, or shall 

 nearly resemble what is described below; 

 then, if all other circumstances concur, I 

 conceive the trees ought to be nursed on the 

 spot ; but for no other reason than that it is 



Let him who has had the management of an extensive 

 forcing, fruit, kitchen, and pleasure garden, and also of 

 extensive plantations and other out-works at the same 

 time, say, whether he could not gladly dispense with 

 the charge of sowing nursery seeds, &c. and whether, if 

 it was not in his power, from the pressure of other busi- 

 ness, to sow them with his own hand, he would be at all 

 anxious for the security of a crop, and consequently, the 

 interest of his employer. 



But I am persuaded, that unless a gentleman shall keep 

 a proper bred nursery-man, be his designs what they 

 may, he will never rear nursery from seed, so cheap or 

 so good as may be purchased. In no business whatever 

 do men in general excel in all branches ; and of garden- 

 ing this is a very important one . Moreover, there is now 

 considerable emulation in the nursery line; which, in 

 every business tends to public advantage. If a man pur- 

 chase bad trees, the fault rests with himself, so long as 

 by looking around him he can find better. 



