46 THE NURSERY [JAK. 



they shall require, for the several purposes for which they are de- 

 signed 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 all the various sorts of plants in the nur- 

 sery, 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 compartments ; allot also a place for herbaceous peren- 

 nials: a warm place should likewise be allotted for the tender 

 plants, and defended with yew, juniper, or privet hedges, or a reed 

 hedge, &c. in which compartments, 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 occasion- 

 ally 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 gradu- 

 ally to bear the open air fully. 



The arrangement of all the sorts in the open ground must al- 

 ways be in lines or nursery-rows, as formerly observed, to 'stand 

 till arrived at a proper growth for drawing off for the garden and 

 plantations; placing the fruit-tree stocks, &c. for grafting and bud- 

 ding 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 eighten inches distant in 

 each line ; and as to herbaceous plants, they should generally be 

 disposed in four-feet-wide beds, or large borders, in rows, or dis- 

 tances from six to twelve or eighteen inches asunder, according to 

 their nature of growth, and the time they are to stand. 



By the above arrangement of the various sorts of hardy trees, 

 shrubs, and herbaceous plants, in rows at those small distances in ' 

 the Nursery, a great number of plants are contained within a nar- 

 row compass, which is sufficient room, as they are only to remain 

 a short time ; and that by being thus stationed in a little compass, 

 they are more readily kept under a proper regulation for the time 

 they are to remain in this department. 



