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ground, which may be from five to eight or ten feet wide, according 

 as it shall seem proper for use or ornament, having a broad border 

 on each side : another walk should be carried all round next the 

 outward boundary, four or five feet wide, leaving an eight or ten 

 feet border next the fence all the way ; then may divide the inter- 

 nal part by smaller cross walks, so as to form the whole into four, 

 six, or eight principal divisions, which are commonly called quar- 

 ters. 



One or more of the divisions must be allotted for a seminary, 

 i.e. for the reception of all sorts of seeds, for raising seedling plants 

 to furnish the other parts ; therefore divide this seminary-ground 

 into four feet wide beds, with foot-wide alleys, at least, between bed 

 and bed : in these beds should be sown seeds, &c. of all such trees, 

 shrubs, and herbaceous plants as are raised from seed ; and which 

 seeds consist both of the various sorts of kernels and stones of fruit, 

 to raise stocks for grafting and budding ; seeds of forest, and or- 

 namental trees, shrubs, Sec. and seeds of numerous herbaceous pe- 

 rennials, both of the fibrous-rooted and bulbous-rooted tribes ; the 

 sowing season is both spring and autumn, according to the nature of 

 the different sorts, which is fully illustrated in their proper places ; 

 and when the young tree and shrub seedling-plants so raised,are one 

 or two years old, they are to be planted out in nursery -rows into the 

 other principal divisions ; but many kinds of herbaceous plants re- 

 quire to be pricked out from the seed-beds, when but from two to 

 three or four months old, as directed for each under their own 

 respective heads. On the other hand, most kinds of bulbous seed- 

 lings will not be fit for planting out, in less than one or two years. 



Another part of the Nursery -ground should be allotted for stools 

 of various trees and shrubs, for the propagation by layers, by which, 

 vast numbers of plants of different kinds are propagated. These 

 stools are strong plants of trees and shrubs, planted in rows three 

 or four feet distance every way, and such of them as naturally rise 

 with tall stems, are, after being planted one year, to be headed 

 down near the ground, to force out many lower shoots conveniently 

 situated for laying. 



And as to cuttings, suckers, slips, off-sets, Sec. those of hardy 

 trees, shrubs, and plants, may be planted in any convenient com- 

 partment, and in shady borders, Sec. and for the more tender kinds, 

 should allot some warm sheltered situation. 



The other principal divisions, therefore, of the Nursery-ground, 

 are for the reception of the various sorts of seedling plants from the 

 above seminary-quarters ; also for all others that are raised from 

 suckers, layers, cuttings, Sec. 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 



