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obtain one-year old or two-year old feedlings of 

 good quality. It will rarely happen that nurfery 

 ground will be naturally too rich for general pur- 

 pofes ; excepting in fituations like fome of thofe 

 in the vicinity of Edinburgh, where the foil is a 

 collection of rich earthy particles, and putrefcent 

 animal matter carried down by the common few^ 

 crs of the City, and depofited in the meadows. 

 Many acres of ground about Edinburgh are of 

 this quality ; and they are certainly more proper 

 for growing kitchen vegetables than for raifmg 

 young plants for the bleak forest, though they are 

 fometimes improperly ufed for this purpofe. 



In order to have a complete nurfery, it fhould 

 contain foils of various qualities ; the generality 

 of it fhould be a light friable earth ; a part of it 

 fhould be of a clayey nature; and another part 

 fliould be moffy. Each of thefe will be found 

 peculiarly ufeful in the raifmg of the different 

 kinds of young plants. 



A nurfery may certainly be over-frieltered ; but 

 this is likely to happen only in the cafe of its be- 

 ing very fmall ; for, if it extend to feveral acres, 

 unlefs it be furrounded by very tali trees, the area 

 will be confiderably expofed. The truth is, no 

 part of the nurfery fliould be either too much ex- 

 pofed, or too much fheltered. 



Any afpect from eaft to weft, following the 

 courfe of the fun, will anfwer. Ground of an 



unequal 



