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one winter or summer, or a year at most, it will sufficiently recover 

 its vegetative force, and may be planted afresh. 



It will be of advantage to plant the ground with plants of a 

 different kind from those which occupied it before. 



The tender or exotic plants of all kinds that require shelter only 

 from frost, whilst young, as formerly mentioned, and by degrees 

 become hardy enough to live id the open air; should such of them 

 as are seedlings in the open ground, have the beds arched over with 

 hoops or rods at the approach of winter, in order to be sheltered 

 with mats in severe weather; and those which are in pots, either 

 seedlings or transplanted plants, should be removed in October in 

 their pots, to a warm sunny situation sheltered with hedges, &c, 

 placing some close under the fences facing the sun, where they 

 may have occasional covering with mats in frosty weather; others 

 that are more tender may be placed in frames to have occasional 

 covering either of glass lights or mats, &c, from frost; observing 

 of all those sorts here alluded to, that they are gradually to be 

 hardened to the open ground, and need only be covered in frosty 

 weather; at all other times let them remain fully exposed, and by 

 degrees, as they acquire age and strength, inure them to bear the 

 open air fully; so as when they arrive at from two or three, to four 

 or five years old, they may be turned out into the open ground. 

 The sorts requiring this treatment are pointed out under their 

 proper heads in the different months. 



The greenhouse kinds of all sorts, or such as require constant 

 shelter in winter, are to be managed as directed under the article 



GREENHOUSE. 



And the hothouse or stove-plants, or such as require constant 

 shelter all or the greater part of the year, together with the aid of 

 artificial heat, are to be managed as exhibited under the article 



HOTHOUSE. 



fVork to be done in the Nursery. 



Young apple and pear trees may now be pruned agreeably to 

 the rules laid down in March; though if your stock of these is not 

 very numerous, and that you are desirous to have so much work 

 done out of the way when the hurry of business comes on in spring, 

 it will be quite as well to defer doing it till the end of February 

 or beginning of March. 



Trim up the stems of forest and other hardy trees where they 

 require it; this may be done when little else can in the nursery; 

 for if it is performed in frosty weather the trees will receive no 

 harm by the operation, especially the hardy deciduous kinds. 



Carry well-rotted dung or compost, and lay it on such parts of 

 the nursery as require it. This may be necessary to such particu- 

 lar quarters as have been lately cleared, and that are intended to 

 be planted again with a fresh stock in autumn, taking oft' a summer 

 crop of vegetables previous thereto; and when the frost permits, 

 let it be trenched in regularly one full spade deep at least. If 



