Jan.] 



The Nursery. 4^ 



or other long litter, lightly over them ; this will protedt 

 the tender tops and roots from the froft. 



But this covering muft not be fuffered to remain longer 

 than necefliiry to defend the plants. 



Propagathig ly Layers, 



You may flill make layers in open weather of fuch trees 

 or Hirubs as you defire to encl-eafe. 



This work of laying down the branches of ftirubs or trees 

 to propagate them, is very eafily performed ; and there 

 are a great many kinds of trees and Ihrubs to be increafed 

 by this operation. The manner of performing it is as fol- 

 lows ; 



In the firft place it mud: be remarked, that the young 

 branches that w^ere produced laft fummer, are the moll pro- 

 per parts to be layed, for thefe will put out roots much 

 freer than the branches that are a year or two older. Ob- 

 fcrving farther, that as many of the flirub kinds branching 

 out near the earth, afford an opportunity of laying them 

 with great facility, but fuch as run up with tall flems, 

 and thofe of the tree kinds, require that fome ftrong young 

 plants with flems two or three inches thick, be cut down 

 near the ground a year or two before, to form flooh to fur- 

 nilli a fupply of fhoots near the earth convenient for laying 

 therein. The ground muft be dug about the fiirub or tree 

 that is to be layed, and as you go on bring down the 

 branches, and fallen them in the ground with hooked pegs, 

 obfervingto lay down all the young wood on each branch in- 

 to the earth, covering therewith the body of each layer three 

 or four inches deep, and faftening each alfo with a peg, if 

 neceflary, and raile the tops upright out of the earth. 



But in laying fome hard-wooded trees and flirubs it is 

 neceffary to ilit the layer, by making a gafh with a knife 

 on the under fide, flitting it an inch or more upward ; ^i^ 

 laying that part in the earth, keeping the gafh a little open, 

 which will greatly affift the rooting, by promoting the 

 emilTion of fibres at the cut part. 



Thofe which are laid in this or next month will be toler- 

 ably well rooted by next autumn, and mull then be fcparat- 

 cd from the tree, and planted in the nurfery to get ftrength. 



Propagating Flowering-Jhrulst ^c. hy Cuttings* 



Plant cuttings of honey-fuckles in open weather, to raife 



fome new plants. 



Oattingi 



