24 ENGLISH WOODLANDS 



transplants is so great that it more than com- 

 pensates for the cost of cleaning the seedlings and 

 the losses, and the danger of transplants being 

 heated or frosted in railway waggons is removed. 

 The difference in vitality of trees grown on the 

 estate and those from a nurseryman is generally 

 very considerable. 



If the site chosen is not previously in culti- 

 vation it should be broken up, and after a fair, 

 but not heavy, manuring, a crop of potatoes or 

 roots taken, and after the crop has been lifted 

 lime spread. The seedlings should be planted in 

 spring in rows 15 inches apart and 5 inches apart 

 in the rows. Some planters prefer two-year 

 seedlings for the nursery to one-year seedlings. 

 They consider that the losses in the latter are 

 generally so great as to compensate for the 

 extra cost of the former. 



There are two kinds of nurseries : temporary, 

 which are usually either on or near the land 

 intended to be planted, and permanent ones. 

 Occasionally permanent nurseries are seen with 

 ornamental gates, and broad gravelled paths 

 flanked by beds full of rare shrubs and trees. 

 The owner whose finances enable him to gratify 

 in this way his aesthetic tastes is much to be 

 congratulated, but it may be observed that a 



