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suckers, layers, cuttings, &c., there to be planted in rows from one 

 to two or three feet asunder, according to their natures of growth; 

 observing to allow the tree and shrub kinds treble the distance of 

 herbaceous perennials. Of the tree and shrub kinds, some are to 

 be planted for stocks to graft and bud the select sorts of fruit-trees 

 upon, and other choice plants, which are usually propagated by those 

 methods; others are trained up entirely on their own roots without 

 budding or grafting, as in most forest and other hardy tree kinds, as 

 also almost all the sorts of shrubs. Here they are to remain to have 

 two, three, or several years' growth, according as they shall require, 

 for the several purposes for which they are designed in their future 

 situations in the garden and plantations, &c., which are directed in 

 their respective cultures. 



In a complete nursery it is also proper to allot some dry, warm, 

 sheltered situation in the full sun, on which to have occasional hot- 

 beds of dung or tan for raising and forwarding many sorts of tender 

 or curious exotics, by seed, cuttings, suckers, slips, &c., and for 

 which purposes you should be furnished with eligible frames and 

 lights, hand-glasses, garden-mats, and other relative requisites. 



GENERAL MODE OF ARRANGING THE PLANTS OF THIS DEPARTMENT. 



In the distribution of the various sorts of plants in the nursery, 

 let each sort be separate; the fruit-trees should generally occupy 

 spaces by themselves; the forest- trees, &c., should also be stationed 

 together; all the shrub kind should be ranged in separate compart- 

 ments ; allot also a place for herbaceous perennials : a warm place 

 should likewise be allotted for the tender plants, and defended with 

 yew, juniper, or private hedges, or a reed hedge, &c., in which com- 

 partments you may station all such plants as are a little tender whilst 

 young, and require occasional shelter from frost, yet are not so tender 

 as to require to be housed like green-house plants, &c., so that in 

 such compartments there may also be frames of various sizes, either 

 to be covered occasionally with glass-lights, or some with mats, to 

 contain such of the more choice of the above tender kinds in pots, to 

 be nursed up a year or two, or longer, with occasional shelter, till 

 hardened gradually to bear the open air fully. 



The arrangement of all the sorts in the open ground must always 

 be in lines or nursery-rows, as formerly observed, to stand till arrived 

 at a proper growth for drawing off for the garden and plantation ; 

 placing the fruit-tree stocks, &c., for grafting and budding upon, in 

 rows three feet asunder, if for dwarfs, but standards four feet, and a 

 foot and a half or two feet in the lines ; though after being grafted 

 and budded, they then commencing fruit-trees, &c. ; if they are to 

 stand to grow to any large size, they should be allowed the width of 

 five feet between the rows. Forest-trees should also be placed in 

 rows four feet asunder, and eighteen inches distance in the rows, 

 varying the distance both ways according to the time they are to 

 stand ; the shrub kind should likewise be arranged in rows about two 

 feet asunder, and fifteen or eighteen inches distant in each line; and 

 as to herbaceous plants, they should generally be disposed in four 

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