NI'R 



SVR 



over a horse's nose. It is soniclimes 

 termed maserole. 



NOSOLOGY. A classification or 

 dissertation on diseases. 

 NOTCHED. Crcnate. 

 NOTCH-BOARD. In building, the 

 board which receives the ends of the 

 steps of a staircase. 

 NOTHUS. Spurious. 

 NOVACULITE. Hone stone. 

 NOVEMBER. In this month the 

 later or fall crops, as carrots, turnips, 

 cabbages, &c., are collected, and sto- 

 red up from frost ; preparation is to be 

 made for securing the fodder in a 

 suitable place for stock ; the farm- 

 stead is to be set right for wintering. 

 All stiff lands are now ploughed for 

 spring crops. The latter steps of 

 curing tobacco, the preparation for 

 rotting hemp, and securing cotton for 

 market, are now made. In the gar- 

 den, early vegetables are to be look- 

 ed after, and frames got ready to pro- 

 tect them from winter. The land 

 may be trenched for spring crops ; 

 transplanting can take place until the 

 ground begins to freeze too deep. 



NUCLEUS. The point around 

 which crystals or organized struc- 

 tures are developed : the origin. In 

 botany, the upper, pulpy mass of an 

 ovule ; the interior of a seed. The 

 shield of lichens. 



NUCULA. A fruit like the acorn, 

 or a one-seeded, hard seed-vessel. 

 NUDUS, Naked. 

 NURSERY. " In gardening, a plot 

 of ground, or an entire garden, set 

 apart for the propagation of plants, 

 more particularly trees and shrubs. 

 The situation ought to be open and 

 airy, and the soil of an average qual- 

 ity, neither too heavy nor too light, 

 so as to be adapted to the majority of 

 plants ; but in a complete nursery 

 there ought also to be shady borders 

 for plants requiring shade, and beds 

 or compartments of peat soil, or oth- 

 er peculiar soils, for such plants as 

 are not readily propagated and grown 

 in ordinary soils. Where tender 

 plants are propagated, or where hardy 

 plants are to be raised from seeds, 

 or struck from cuttings which are not 

 easily germinated or rooted in the 

 522 



open ground and in the ordinary man- 

 ner, hot-beds, frames, and hand-glass- 

 es are also requisite. Every private 

 garden of any extent requires a nur- 

 sery to raise and bring forward young 

 plants as a reserve for supplying fail- 

 ures by disease or accident in the 

 general garden. 



" The seeds of the trees to be cul- 

 tivated are first sown in what are 

 termed the seed beds. The pits of 

 peaches and stone fruits may be ei- 

 ther broken, or placed in wet sand in 

 the fall, so as to open in the spring of 

 themselves. The beds may be made 

 about four feet wide, with little paths 

 for passages between. 



" The ground of these beds being 

 carefully digged, and rendered smooth 

 by the rake, and a little of the sur- 

 face soil being laid aside for the pur- 

 pose of covering the seeds, these are 

 to be scattered evenly over the sur- 

 face, and a light wooden roller then 

 passing over it, the earth which had 

 been laid aside is to be spread care- 

 fully and equally over the seeds. 



" The seeds of resinous trees must 

 be lightly covered, and so also must 

 some of the hard-wood kinds. Those 

 of the larch and the spruce should be 

 covered about a quarter of an inch, 

 and sown in the month of April, while 

 those of the oak, the ash, the chest- 

 nut, the sycamore, and others, may 

 be more deeply covered, and sown 

 at an earlier season. But some of 

 the hard-wood kinds require to be 

 sown at a later period, on account 

 of their being subject to injury from 

 frost ; and some may be sown in sum- 

 mer and autumn. 



" The young plants remain in the 

 seed beds for one or two years, du- 

 ring which period they are termed 

 seedlings. Some of the hardier spe- 

 cies, as the larch and pine, may be 

 transplanted at once from the seed 

 beds to the place which they are to 

 occupy in the forest, while others, in- 

 cluding several of the resinous, and 

 all the hard-wood kinds, are first 

 transplanted into lines in another part 

 of the nursery, where they remain for 

 one or more years, and then are trans- 

 planted to their place in the forest. 



