25^ The Nursery^ [May. 



the fhoots will probably be grown to a proper fize for that 

 purpofe, by the third or fourth week in the month. 



Therefore, about that time, if the young Ihoots be long 

 enough, let Tome of the pliable branches, that afford the 

 flrongeft and beft young llioots be brought down gently to 

 the ground, and there let them be faftened fecurely with 

 llfong hooked pegs ; then let the young fhoots be laid into 

 the earth, and covered two or three inches deep with it, 

 leaving about two or three inches of the top of each fhoot 

 out of the ground. 



As foon as th^y are layed, give a moderate watering to 

 fettle the eanh properly about them ; then lay a little 

 mulch, or fome long litter, thinly on the furface.* 



After this, let the earth be very moderately watered in 

 ■dry weather, every five or fix days ; and be fare not to 

 give too much water at a time, for that would be apt to 

 rot the tender roots, according as they break out. 



Though this method of laying in the young wood is 

 defigned chlefiy for fuch evergreen and other fhrubs as do 

 not readfiy put forth roots from the older fhoots, yet it 

 need not be confined to any particular forts : 'for there are 

 many kinds that may be propagated by the fame pra<5lice, 

 and the trial may be made on any fuch forts as you defire 

 to increafe. 



The proper time to perform this work, is from about 

 the latter end of May or beginning or middle of June, to 

 tlie end of July, according as the fhoots of the diiierent 

 irrts of fhrubs arrive to a proper growth for laying ; and, 

 if proper fhoots are chofen, and thefe properly laid, they 

 will, many of them, be well rooted, and in a condition 

 to he feparated from the mother plant by the beginning 

 of tiie following Oftober. 



2'Je<w- grafted and budded Trees, 



Look over the grafts about the lafl week in this month, 

 5iid at that time let the clay be taken off, for there will 

 be no more occafion for it ; and at the fame time let the 

 bandages be loofened. 



Let no fnoots remain that rife from the flocks below the 

 -grafts, but as fbonas they appear, let them be immedi- 

 atef/ rubbed off; and this fhould be duly pradlifed, that 

 tlie gralu may not be robbed of nouriihmcnt. 



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