June.] The Nursery. 299 



and other trees and ihrubs, in particular the evergreen 

 kinds. 



Bat take notice, it is the young fhoots of the fame 

 fummer's growth that are now to be layed. Therefore, 

 having fixed on the plant, let fach branches as are fur- 

 niihed -well with young wood be brought down gently to 

 the ground, and fecured there with hooked Hicks ; thert 

 let all the young Hioots on each branch be layed, covering 

 them three or four inches deep with earth ; leaving at 

 leaft two or three inch^ of the top of each ihoot out of 

 the ground. 



They muft be watered in dry weather; that is, the 

 earth about the layers muil: be kept always a little moill, 

 in a middling degree ; and, if this is well obfcrved, many of 

 'the layers will De well rooted by Michaelmas, and fit for 

 tranfplantation. 



By this pradice of laying the young wood, you may 

 propagate almofl any fuch trees or flirubs as you defire ; 

 but it is chiefly for the hard- wooded kinds of evergreens, 

 or others which do not pirtout roots freely from older ihoots 

 or branches j bu;; fuch trees as Ihed their leaves, and even 

 for evergreens, whofe wood is fofc, it is bell, for the 

 generality, not to lay them till after Michaelmas, or in 

 February or March ; choofing at thefe times the lail fum- 

 mer's iliocts. 



Watering Seedling Plants ^ i^c. 



Give water in dry weather to the beds of all the more 

 tender or choice faiall young feedling trees and ftirubs. 



This iliouid be particularly pradtifed on the beds of 

 feedling young cedars, cyprefs, pines, firs, and junipers: 

 alfo to bays, and hollies, evergreen oaks, and arbutus j 

 and to all other fmall evergreen feedling plants, as alfo 

 of the more curious or tender deciduous kinds ; as well as 

 to thofe of the herbaceous tribe. 



But, in watering thefe young plants, let fome care be 

 taken ; that is, do not water them too halbiy, leil you 

 walh the earth away from their roots, which are yet but 

 \ ery fmall and tender. Two or three moderate waterings 

 in a week will be enough, and the evening is the proper 

 time to do that work. 



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