jo OFTHENURSERY. 



cannot be had a Tandy foil will do ; but it 

 requires a great deal of rich compofition 

 to make the trees flourifh. 



A FIELD that has been in corn is very 

 unfit to be made into a nurfery ; but if a 

 grafs field and a. {tiff loam, you muft lay 

 over all the grafs a good quantity of 

 fand, two inches thick at leaft ; and if this 

 was done in the beginning of winter, to be 

 warned in with the rain and mow, it would 

 be the beil method. 



AFTER it has lain fome time it will 

 cruft over and dry at top, and will be lia- 

 ble to be warned off with the rain if the 

 ground has a declivity, which it mould 

 have ; to prevent that, give it a good 

 harrowing acrofs the field, and that will 

 open the ground fo that the fand will mix 

 much better. Early in the fpring plow it 

 deep, and get from old woods where leaves 

 and flicks have rotted, the bottoms of old 

 wood-ftacks, and the cleaning of ilreets, 

 a large quantity, and lay all over the field 



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