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If the foil and fituation in which the trees are 

 ultimately to be planted, be favourable, we can 

 fee no folid reafon for objecting to fuch a plan ; 

 particularly if the defign be extenfive, and fuch 

 as may require many years for its completion ; 

 becaufe a conveniently fituated nurfery is, in that 

 cafe, highly defirable, not only as' faving the car- 

 riage of plants, and facilitating the bufinets of 

 tranfplanting, but as multiplying the chances of 

 fuccefs, on accouut of the plants remaining a much 

 fhorter time out of the ground, than if brought 

 from a diflance. But if the fituation ultimately 

 deftined for the trees be cold, high and bleak, and 

 the foil of courfe various ; fome good, and much 

 of it bad, or of an indifferent quality; it would 

 by no means be advifable there to attempt the e- 

 ftablimment of a nurfery, and efpecially a nurfery 

 to raife plants from feeds. 



The chief properties of nurfery plants intended 

 for transplanting, confifl in their flrength and 

 cleannefs of ftem, and in their roots having a mul- 

 tiplicity of healthy fibres. In order to obtain plants 

 pofTeffing thefe qualities, it is neceffary to fow, 

 and to plant out to nurfe, if not in rich, at least 

 in mellow earth, and in a moderately flickered 

 fituation. The more delicate kinds of tree-feeds, 

 fuch as the birch, the larch, and the other refm- 

 ous kinds, require a mould both rich and fine, 

 and a considerable degree of fhelter, in order to 



obtain 



