42 The Nursery. [Jan. 



Thefe, if mild weather, maybe fovvn about the middle 

 of hitter end of this month, oblerving to fovv them in beds 

 tour feet wide; cover the flones an inch and a half deep 

 at leail with earth, and the kernels near an inch : the plants 

 Vk'ill appear in i\pril and May, when they mull: be kept re- 

 markably clean from weeds, by a careful hand- weeding ; 

 and moderate waterings in dry weather will be ferviceable, 

 when they are newly come up. 



Some of them will be fit for tranfplanting in nurfery 

 rows next November, and the following planting months ; 

 which fee. 



Get ready alfo fome ground, to fow the feeds, nuts, and 

 berries, &c. of hardy foreft-trees and iiowering-flirubs. 



The ground for this purpofe, muft be chofen in a dry 

 and iheltered part of the nurfery. Let it be neatly dug, 

 and divide it in beds three or four feet wide. The feed, 

 &c. may be fown, if open weather, about the laft week in 

 the month. Let them be fowed tolerably thick, and co- 

 vered with earth about an inch deep. 



The furface of the beds wherein the above feeds are Town, 

 fhould be very well cleared from flones. See February* 



Care offender and young Seedling Trees, 



Take great care now of all the tenderer kinds of feedling 

 trees, (hrubs, and other plants raifcd from feed lail year ; 

 many kinds will, in hard frod, need fome flielter. 



Particularly the young feedling plants of the cedar of 

 Lebanon, &c. the arbutus, or flravvberry-tree, and alio the 

 tenderer kinds of pines and firs, and the feedling plants of 

 cyprefs, and fuch like kinds of young feedling ever-green 

 plants, will (land in need of fhelter in the time of fevere 

 troft. Therefore, at the approach of the firfl froll, the pots, 

 tubs, or boxes, wherein the young cedars, or others of the 

 like kind of feedlings are, fhould be placed under a common 

 garden-frame, and in the time of hard frolls the glafles, 

 and other covering, if neceflary, put on ; but they mull 

 be kept conftantly open in mild weather. 



But fuch tender feedling plants as are growl ng In beds,and 

 require flielter in time of frofl,{hould be covered at fuch times 

 with mats. Firfl ereding fome hoops acrofs the bed, and 

 the mats to be drawn over them occalionally for the defence 

 of the plants. 



Like wife fome of the more hardy kinds of young plants 

 may be Iheltered in bad weather, by laying fome peas-ilraw» 



