SECT. VI. OF A NURSERT, 81 



the alpine, chusing the largest and most conical fruit 

 for seed. 



The young offsets from strawberries slipped in 

 autumn, or those of the last year (which will be bet- 

 ter ro ted) slipped in spring, will do for plants, cut- 

 ting off the sticky parts ; but the first runners are 

 more commonly and properly used ; and to have 

 these fine, the runners which sheot beyond should 

 be pinched off in time. Offsets, early in spring, 

 and forward runners as soon as rooted in June, may 

 be planted out in cool ground, at six inches distance, 

 by way of a nursery, in order for making new plan- 

 tations towards the end of September, or in October: 

 This is a good way though seldom practised; let 

 them be well watered till rooted, and suffer no run- 

 ners to proceed from them. The common method is 

 to let the runners on the mother plant remain till 

 September, and then, to dregs the beds, and select 

 the first, the strong and most bushy-rooted sets for 

 forming new beds. Thus their own beds will be the 

 nursery for them ; and except the soil is worn out 

 (perhaps,) the best. 



The raising of FOREST TREES is rather beside the 

 purpose of this book. They have been mentioned 

 as to the time of sowing, and their treatment is in a 

 great measure the same as for raising slocks for fruit 

 trees ; so that to those who wauld do only a little in 

 this way, much more need not be said. 



Forest trees are too often left to grow thick on 

 the seed bed, and only thinned a little in the autumn 

 following, and so from time to time as they get 

 bigger ; but a little thinning should early take place 

 in the summer, by drawing, when the ground is 

 moist. If the soil that seedling trees are tp b$ 

 planted in be poor, let them be raised in eartU 



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