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NURSES. 



SCOTCH and spruce firs, birch, and wych-elm, 

 have for many years past been extensively 

 grown as NURSES, and a great deal has been 

 written on this subject in connection with 

 planting, and on which every one holds an 

 opinion and follows a practice of his own ; 

 and in expressing mine on the point in ques- 

 tion I ask, If a tree will bear singly, or in 

 groups of five, six, ten, or a dozen together, 

 the climate of the Low and High Peaks of 

 Derbyshire, and, though slow in growth, will 

 reach a maturity, size, and quality in our 

 most exposed situations, and will rival and in 

 many instances excel the same timber grown 

 in a warmer and more favoured clime and 



