164 The Nursery. [Mar. 



cyprefs, juniper, &c. this being the proper feafon to fow 



thele and the like kinds. 



Dig a fpot of light earth for thefe feeds, and divide it 

 into fmall beds; few the feed therein, each fort by itfelf, 

 and cover them with light earth, about half an inch. 

 Watering and fnading the beds in dry hot weather will be 

 very neceffary. It will of great fervice if you do it while 

 the plants are young. 



The flravvberry-tree, or arbutus, itiay be raifed from 

 feed; and this is the feafon to fo.v it. 



But the moft certain method is to fow this feed in a 

 hot-bed. The method is this : fill fome fmall pots with 

 frefh light earth ; fow the feed therein, and Cover it near 

 half an inch ; then plunge the pots to their rims in a 

 hot-bed. Sprinkle the pots frequently with water, and 

 when the plants appear, they fliould have a great deal of 

 free air. 



Thefe feeds wHl alfo grov/, if you fow them in a bed 

 of natural earth, but not fo expeditioufly, nor fo certain. 



The acorns of evergreen oak may be fown now ; alfo 

 the feeds of phillyrea and bays, and other evergreens, ia 

 beds of light earth, and cover the acorns about an inch, 

 and the others about half an inch deep. 



For a further account of the different forts of evergreens, 

 which may be raifed by feed, fee the Nur/ery next month, 

 and Tibe Catalogue of Trees and Shrubs at the end of the 

 book. 



^ran/planting young Trees and Shruhs, 

 Mod forts of young trees and ihrubs, both deciduous 

 and evergreen kinds, may ftill be removed, either from 

 the feed-bed, or other compartments where they Hand too 

 tlofe, and require planting out in wide nurfery rows. 



In tranfplanting the various forts in nurfery-rows, fome 

 of the fmaller kinds may firft be bedded out in clofe rows 

 from iix to twelve inches diftance, fuch as the cedars, 

 pines, firs, and fuch like evergreens, &c. but the larger 

 feedling plants, &c. fhould be planted in wide rows two 

 feet and a half afunder, and the plants placed from about 

 twelve or fifteen inches, to half a yard didant in each line. 

 Watering after tranfplantation may be neceffary in late 

 planting, to fome of the tenderer evergreens. 



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