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ming them ready for planting, by shortening 

 the long straggluig fibres, and cutting off any 

 thick-knobbed part ot'llic old root lliat may ad- 

 here to the bottom, leaving only the fibres 

 arising from the young wood ; though it is pro- 

 bable some will appear with hardly any fibres ; 

 but as the bolloin part having been under 

 ground, and contiguous to the root of the main 

 plant, is naturally disposed to send forth fibres 

 for rooting, preparatory to planting them out, the 

 stems of the siniib and tree suckers should like- 

 wise be trimmed occasionally, by cutting off all 

 lower laterals ; and any having long, slender, 

 and weak tops, or such as are intended to as- 

 sume a more dwarfish or bushy growth, may be 

 shortened at top in proportion, to froin about 

 half a foot to one or two feet in length, ac- 

 cording to their nature or strength ; and others 

 that are more strong, or that are designed to 

 run up with taller stems, may have their tops 

 left entire, or shortened but little : when thus 

 taken up and trimmed, they should he planted 

 out in rows in the nursery ; the weak suckers 

 separately in close rows ; and also the shortened 

 and stronger plants each separately in wider 

 rows ; so that the rows may be from one to two 

 feet asunder, in proportion to the size and 

 strength of the suckers : and after being thus 

 planted out, they should have the common 

 nursery culture of cleaning from weeds iii sum- 

 mer, and digging the ground between the rows 

 in winter. See., and in from one to two or three 

 years they will be a proper size for planting out 

 where they are to remain : and some kinds of 

 trees, &c., produce suckers strongenough in one 

 season to be fit for planting where they are to 

 remain ; as some sorts of roses, and numerous 

 other flowering shrubs ; also some of the strong 

 shooting gooseberries, currants, raspberries, &c. 



The increase by su 'kers, as in soine particular 

 sorts of trees and shrubs, as currants and goose- 

 berries, &c., is objected to for any general sup- 

 ply, on the supposition that the trees so raised 

 are more adapted to run too greatly to suckers, 

 and overrun the ground round the mother plant, 

 than such as are raised by other methods : how- 

 ever, it may generally beobserved of such trees and 

 shrubs as are naturally disposed to send up many 

 suckers, that by whatsoever method they are 

 propagated, whether by seeds, suckers, layers, 

 cuttings, &c., they commonly still continue 

 their natural tendency. 



When it is tlierefore required to have any 

 sorts produce as few suckers as possible, not to 

 ovennn the ground, or disfigure the plants, it 

 is proper both" at the time of separating the suck- 

 ers, or planting them off from the main plants, 

 and at the time of their final removal from the 

 nursery, to observe if at the bottom part they 



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show any tendency to emit sucker's, by the ap- 

 pearance of prominent buds, which, if the case, 

 should all be rubbed off as close as possible : as, 

 however, many sorts of trees and shrubs are 

 liable to throw out considerably more than may 

 be wanted, they should always be cleared away 

 annually at least, and in such as are not wanted 

 for increase, it is proper to eradicate them con- 

 stantly, as they are produced in spring and sum- 

 mer. 



Numerous herbaceous and succulent plants 

 are productive of bottom off-set suckers from 

 the roots, by which they may be increased, either 

 generally or occasionally, according to the dif- 

 ferent sorts, both of the fibrous-, bulbous-, and 

 tuberous-rooted tribes; all the off-sets from the 

 root, and above-ground bottom side heads, of 

 these kind of plants, may be deemed a sort of 

 suckers : those for planting should be taken off 

 when of one summer's growth, or two at most, 

 which, in the fibrous-rooted kind, may be per- 

 formed in autumn or spring ; and in the bul- 

 bous-, and many of the tuberous-rooted sorts, 

 in summer and autumn, when the stalks and 

 leaves decay. 



In slipping and planting these sorts of off-set 

 suckers, the smaller ones should be planted in 

 nursery-beds, pots, &c., according to the na- 

 ture of growth and temperature of the different 

 sorts, to have the advantage of one summer's 

 advanced growth ; and the larger ones at once, 

 where they are to remain, in beds, borders, pots, 

 Sec, according to the sorts. 



SUGAR CAN'E. See Saccharum. 

 SUGAR MAPLE. See Acer. 

 SULTAN, SWEET. See Ckntaurea. 

 SUMACH. See Coriaiua and Rhus. 

 SUMMER CYPRESS. See Chenopodium. 

 SUN, the luminary that affords light and 

 heat to plants and vegetables, and is the first 

 mover of all their actions; by the genial heat 

 which it affords, and its influence upon the 

 soils, it promotes the growth of them all. 



Plants, therefore, which in their growth are 

 more or less exposed to the sun, are, for the most 

 part, more prosperous, forwarder, and attain 

 greater perfection than such as grow in any con- 

 siderable shade : and most fruits in a sunny ex- 

 posure are considerablv more beautiful, sooner 

 ripe, and acquire superior quality in flavour, &c. 

 to those growing in shady places : and as it has 

 a highly feriilizing effect upon the earth, 

 the ground designed to be mellowed should al- 

 way^ be turned up in rough ridges, to give free 

 access to the influence of ihe sun and air ; like- 

 wise all compost heaps should generally be prepa- 

 red in sunny situations, in the full air, not in 

 shady corners, orinsheds, as is often practised 

 by gardeners. 



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