SITUATIONS AND SOILS, &C. 19 



SECTION L 



ON SITUATIONS AND SOILS FOR A 

 NURSERY. 



1 HE rearing of foreft trees and hedge plants 

 from feeds, has hitherto been chiefly confined to 

 the public nurferies throughout the kingdom. 

 But although thefe are numerous, many cafes 

 have occurred, efpecially in fequeftered places, 

 ftrongly requiring proprietors to eftablifh private 

 nurferies of their own, more conveniently fituat- 

 ed for the fcene of planting. 



When nurfery plants muft be brought from 

 great diftances,, the carriage much enhances their 

 coft. But this is not all. When the diftance is 

 very great, the plants muft lye fo long out of the 

 ground, that they are often much injured, Thefe, 

 \vith a variety of like reafons, have induced many 

 to wifh to raife their own foreft trees from the 

 feeds. 



Many gentlemen who have a great defire to 



raife their foreft trees from the, feeds, have, in 



B 2 their 



