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somewhat sandy, and at any rate not in a 

 dunged soil. 



When young men take to gardening and planting, 

 it : isr an happy circumstance, and they should lose 

 no time in the business ; for it is a thing that persons 

 advanced in years have often repented of. It pro- 

 duct's considerable satisfaction, and a peculiar plea- 

 sure in the evening of life, when a man can point at 

 good trees, and say, " These are of my own plant- 

 i-Ng !" but it were a superior thing to add, " And 

 of my own raising too." Young planters would 

 wisely resolve, therefore, to raise their own trees, 

 especially of the fores f kind. " There is (however) 

 no better, or cheaper way of raising woods and 

 plantations, than by sowing the masts or nuts of 

 timber trees, where they are always to remain, and 

 this is best done in spring." 



It is to be observed, that the wild sen-ice, haw- 

 thorn, holly, and ash keys come up the second year ; 

 but most other seeds of trees the first : Yet ash keys, 

 (and probably the others,) if they are buried in a 

 pit with coal ashes sifted line, or in a sandy earth 

 for a year, will then come up the first year they are 

 sown. 



To have good s&d of the various kinds, is a thing 

 too little attended to; but on which evidently de- 

 pends much. It should be well-ripened, and the 

 produce of fine healthy trees from the top, or outside 

 branches ; withal, not growing near dottrel, ill-con- 

 ditioned ones, the farina from the flowers of which 

 might impregnate those of the good tree, and give 

 its seed a degree of degeneracy. Let oak acorns be 

 thrown into water, and those only used which sink 

 quickly ; they should be kept a while to harden, 

 but riot too long out of ground, as they soon sprout. 



In the management of a nursery, the young plants 

 f trees and shrubs should be dug round once a 



