2O SITUATIONS AND SOILS 



their fervice, deferving forefters and gardeners, 

 who have not had opportunities of learning the 

 beft methods of doing fo ; and with whom, for 

 the fake of their other good qualities, their maf- 

 ters are naturally loath to part. 



Some gentlemen fo fituated, have exprefled a 

 wifh that we mould, in this publication, treat ful- 

 ly and diftincfcly of sowing, of transplanting, and 

 otherwife nursing, all the hardy and ufeful kinds 

 of foreft-trees and hedge-plants. The remarks 

 contained in this feclion, and thofe on nursing, 

 throughout the Kalendar, are offered to fuch gen- 

 tlemen of landed property, and their forefters and 

 gardeners, as may be inclined to form private 

 nurferies for their own ufe. We do not wifh to 

 interfere with the bufmefs of the public nurfery- 

 men ; and therefore, the kinds of trees and hedge- 

 plants to be here treated of, mall be limited to 

 fuch chiefly as are hardy, eafily reared, and mofl 

 defirable in a private nurfery. It is to be under- 

 ftood, further, that our obfervations on the fitua- 

 tions and foils proper for a nurfery, are only ap- 

 plicable to private nurferies at gentlemens' feats. 



Many people have been of opinion (and fome 

 are fo ftill) that trees, in order to their being ren- 

 dered fufficiently hardy, fhould be reared on the 

 foil, and in the fituation, where they are ultimate- 

 ly to be planted ; or at lead in a foil and fitua- 

 tion as nearly fimilar as poflible. 



If 



