Jan.] 



The Nursery. 41 



Trim up the (lems of forell-trees, where they require it : 

 this may be done, when little elfe can be done in the nur- 

 fery ; for if it is performed in froily weather, the trees will 

 receive no harm by the operation, efpecially the hardy 

 kinds. 



Pruning and tr an/planting Flovjering-Jhruhs, 



Prune honey-fuckles and rofes, and alfo all other kinds 

 of hardy flowering-flirubs that want it, training each with 

 a fmgle ilem, and trimming their heads as you fhall fee 

 occalion ; that is, cither to cut out, or fliorten, all Urag- 

 ^ling fhoots, in fuch manner as you fliall fee neceflary to 

 keep their heads fomewhat to a regular form. 



Jn open and fettled weather you may now tranfplant, 

 where neceflary, moft forts of hardy flowering Ihrubs, in a 

 dry foil ; but where the ground is apt to lodge wet, there 

 fnouid not be any planted thereinbefore February. 



Planting Fruit-tree Stocks, 



Plantations of fruit-tree (locks for grafting and budding 

 upoii, may be made any time of this month, if fnvournbjc 

 wc.ithcr. Many of thofe raifed from feed, S^c. lad: fpring, 

 or the year before, will be fit for this, digging them up 

 out of the feed-bed, &c. with their full roots, and let them 

 be planted in rows, two feet and a half afunder, and fifteen 

 or eighteen inches didant from each other in the rows. For 

 the methods of planting them, fee the Nurfery in O^ohr^ 

 &c. 



Work infrojiy Weather, 



In frody weather carry dung, and lay on fuch places of 

 the nurfery as require it. 



This may be neceflary to fuch quarters as have been late^- 

 ly cleared, and that are intended to be planted again with 

 a freih flock; and let it be trenched in regularly one full 

 fpade deep, at lead. 



Preparing Ground for planting and Jov^ing. 



In open weather, you fliould, as much as poilible, for- 

 ward the digging and trenching the pieces of ground where 

 young trees and fhrubs are to be planted in fpring. 



Now begin to prepare fonie ground, where it is not wet, 

 for the reception of ftones and kernels of hardy fruits, to 

 raife a fupply of flocks, for the purpofe of budding and 

 grafting upon. 



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