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lay out a border of twelve or fifteen feet around it, 

 and a walk next to it of six or eight feet, and if the 

 nursery is large, a broad walk of twelve or fifteen 

 feet may be made, up the central part, for the ac- 

 commodation of a cart or wagon to take away or 

 bring any trees, soil or other things belonging to it 

 in the most convenient manner. 



CHAPTER II. 



ON THE INCREASE OR PROPAGATION OF TREES. 



ART. 1. Increase by Seed. 



IT should be a general rule to propagate many 

 kind of the trees by seed, although suckers are in 

 many cases substituted for it ; the pear, the apple, 

 the plum and cherry, are the principal families of 

 eatable fruits, and are extensively cultivated as a 

 matter of profit, and as these are of such import- 

 ance, it is quite clear that the best possible manner 

 of growing trees should be resorted to, in order to 

 give the cultivator a due return for money and 

 labor expended. 



The greatest error in cultivating the above named 

 varieties of trees from suckers is, that they are 

 prone to throw out suckers from the roots of the pa- 

 rent tree which acts as a nurse for awhile, to a nu- 

 merous progeny of young offsprings, which in time 

 draw nutriment from the surrounding earth, and im- 

 poverish the parent. If these suckers are cut off 

 from their parent roots, the number is trebled yearly 



