80 OF A NURSERY. 



would have reason to commend the planter of 

 them. 



Filberds, are raised from nuts, or suckers, and 

 layers, the latter of which is the best 'method; or 

 they may be graffed on the common nut tree. The 

 nuts sown in autumn, or kept dry in sand till Fe- 

 bruary, produce fine trees, but generally differ a 

 little from the sorts sown, and make a variety gener- 

 ally for the worse : Nuts fruit best in a cool soil. 



Currants and gooseberries are raised principally 

 from suckers, slips and cuttings, but best from the 

 latter. When from seed, it is with a view of ob- 

 taining varieties, and hence the many sorts of goose- 

 berries in some catalogues. Use cuttings, or slips, 

 of the last year's wood ; from fruitful trees, about 

 nine or ten inches long, and set them four or five in 

 the ground, half a yard asunder ; train them to one 

 shoot, (or at the most two,) the first year, and the 

 next head them down to six or seven eyes, when a 

 fine head will be formed the following year, and in the 

 autumn they may be moved where they are to fruit. 



Barberries are raised from suckers, layers, cut* 

 tings, or seed sown in autumn or spring. The latter 

 mode of propagation produces the finest shrubs, 

 with the largest fruit, though it is seldom practised, 

 suckers being generally numerous. 



Raspberries are almost universally propagated 

 from suckers, being always abundant; and as this 

 saves a year, and seed produces varieties not desir- 

 able, sowing is not to be recommended : This shrub 

 is rarely brought into the nursery to obtain strength. 



Strawberries are raised from seed, offsets, and 

 runners, but almost universally from the last; yat 

 plants from seed produce the finest fruit, and some- 

 times a variety that is superior to the. original. It 

 should be sown in pots, or boxes in March, or April. 

 This method is particularly to be recommended for 



