A NURSERY. 



In molt cafes, it is advifable to trench the 

 ground to its full depth in the preparation ; and 

 if it be anywife ftiff, or inclined to wernefs, it 

 will be neceflary to give it a good drefling of lime 

 (or marl) and dung in compoft. Rank manure, 

 fuch as liable litter, fliould not be applied to nur- 

 fery ground, at the time of cropping with nurfery 

 articles ; but if it be neceflary to enrich it, this 

 mould be done by a manured crop of onions, tur- 

 nips, lettuces, or the like. Potatoes fhould never 

 go before a crop of feedlings, even of the coarfer 

 forts, as am, oak, or chefnuts ; becaufe potatoes 

 never can be taken clean out of the ground ; and 

 it being indifpenfable to pull up thofe which rife 

 among the tree feedlings, many of thefe unavoid- 

 ably come up along with them. Hence, crops of 

 lettuces, turnips, cabbages, or the like, mould ra- 

 ther precede the crop of feedlings. The befl 

 kind of management, in this particular cafe, is 

 to interchange the crops of timber trees and efcu- 

 lents occafionally ; perhaps, with refpecl to molt 

 forts of feedling plants, alternately ; obferving to 

 low all fmall feeds, in particular, if not in a rich, 

 at leaft in a fine tilth. But this matter will be 

 more minutely directed in the Kalendar. 



For a Nurfery in the above view, no place, cer- 

 tainly, can be more eligible, than a field which 

 may alfo be occupied as a kitchen garden. If, 

 for inftance, three acres were required for the 

 purpofes of nursery, and one or two acres were 



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