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The Nursery. 4S7 



down Old hedges which have run up naked at bottom. 

 See November and December. 



The Nurserv. 



Propagating by Layers, , 



NOW begin to propagate foreft-trees and flowering 

 ihrubs, &c. by layers, this being the bell feafou 

 to perform that work on the hardy kinds ; and the man- 

 ner of doing it is quite eafy. 



The ground is to be dug round the tree or (hrub you 

 intend to propagate ; and in doing this, the Ihoots or 

 branches are to be brought down and laid into the earth, 

 * Jind faflened there with forked or hooked fticks ; and the 

 body of the fnoots are to be covered about three or four 

 , inches deep, leaving the top three or four inches cut of 

 the ground. 



Eims will fucceed remarkably well by Ia')'crs, and fo 

 will limes, and many other hardy foreft-trees, ornamen- 

 tal trees, flowering fhrubs and evergreens. 



But where it is intended to raife the tree and tall 

 fhrub kinds by layers, the tree or ihrubs from which the 

 \2LyQx% are to be made muJil be prepared for that purpofe, 

 a year before, by cutting down the ftems thereof near 

 the ground,, when only two or three inches thick, in 

 order that ,they may produce fiioots or branches at fuch 

 a convenient height as they can be readily laid down, 

 but moft of the lower kinds of llirubs branching out near 

 the ground, naturally afford layers enough properly 

 fituated for laying, without the above precaution of pre- 

 vioufly heading down. 



T ran/plant Layers. 



Take off the layers of all kinds of trees and ihrubs that 

 were laid a twelvemonth ago, or laft fummer. 



Let thefe be planted in rows in an open fpot; the 

 larger plants, fet in rows two feet and a half afunder, and 

 the fmall kinds fifteen or eighteen inches, and planted 

 twelve inches diitant in the row. 



Y 4 Propagate 



