566 THE NURSERY. [Nov. 



exposed to the frost, the plants will not only be injured, but the pots 

 burst by the expansion of the earth and water. 



Pots containing tolerably large and hardy exotic plants may be 

 plunged to their rims in a warm border, and covered six or eight 

 inches deep over their edges with tanner's bark, leaves of trees, 

 long litter, &.c. which will considerably preserve the roots of the 

 plants. But the more curious kinds of hardy evergreens and other 

 plants in pots should now be removed into the green-house, or into 

 garden-frames with glasses and other covering, the more effectually 

 to protect them. 



Digging between the Nursery rows. 



You should now continue to dig the ground between all such 

 trees and shrubs as are to remain another year in the nursery 

 rows; this will destroy the weeds, improve the plants, and add 

 neatness to the whole during winter and spring. 



Care of new-planted Trees, S,-c. 



Stake and tie up all new planted trees that are in open exposures, 

 in order to prevent their being rocked about by the winds, than 

 which there is nothing more injurious to them. 



Lay light litter of some kind, a good thickness, over the roots of 

 the more tender and choice kinds of trees and shrubs, to protect 

 them from frost; this will be of considerable service, and encourage 

 them to shoot vigorously in spring. 



Pruning Trees and Shrubs. 



You may now reduce to proper form any hardy forest or orna- 

 mental trees, flowering shrubs, &c, cutting out any disorderly or 

 straggling branches, and trimming up the stems of such as require 

 it. But the more tender sorts should not be pruned till spring. 



Preparations for making Neiv Plantations. 



Continue to dig and trench the ground, or to plough it extremely 

 deep, where you intend making new plantations in spring, by which 

 it will be greatly improved, and your business then forwarded. 



Where dung is wanted, it should be given previous to the 

 digging, &c. and advantage ought to be taken of dry weather to 

 carry it in and spread it on the ground. It will be much better to 

 give it at this season than immediately before planting, as it will 

 have more time to incorporate with the earth, and to be deprived of 

 its rancid qualities. 



