6 OFTHE NURSERY. 



cient quantity of nourishment, and moil 

 of them would be, what is called in the 

 common planting phrafe, hide-bound. 



THE proper foil to make a nurfery to 

 raife foreft- trees, is a light Tandy loam of 

 two feet (if it can be got) or eighteen 

 inches, which will be a fufficient depth 

 to prevent drought in fummer affe&ing 

 the trees, and the froft hurting them in 

 the winter. 



AN old pafture field that dopes gently 

 to the fouth is the bed fituation, for low 

 and fiat grounds are not proper, as they 

 are liable to be over- blown in winter in 

 deep driving fnows, which will be apt to 

 break many of the young trees. Befides, 

 if the fnow be blown very thick, which 

 often happens, it will lay much longer 

 than on a rifing ground, and be very de- 

 trimental to the young plants. 



TRENCHING is always recommended for 

 making a new nurfery, but it is not al- 

 ways 



