*OR A NURSERY. 



111 a cold climate, or bleak fituation, -with a 

 poor .barren foil, we would by/io means advife 

 the raifing of feedlings at all. It will be found a 

 cheaper, as well as a more fatisfaclory method , 

 to purchafe fe*edlings, tranfplant them, and nurfe 

 them till fit for planting out in the foreft ; and, 

 even in this cafe, a piece of the beft and mod 

 flickered land, perhaps, on the property, may be 

 neceflary for the purpofe, This piece fhould be 

 properly drained and improved ; and it fhould be 

 flickered, by quick growing hedges of elder, pop- 

 lar, privet, fpruce, larch, or the like, planted at 

 fuch diftances as may anfwer completely to break 

 the wind ; or by a clofe plantation of mixed trees 

 and fhrubs ; or, both thefe and the quick-grow- 

 ing fubdividing hedges may be ufed, as need may 

 require. We have already noticed above, the ne- 

 ceffity of furrounding the nurfery with a fence 

 fufficient to exclude rabbits and hares. 



In many cafes, a good dofe of lime would be 

 a fuitable preparative in a new nurfery like that in 

 view ; and the more especially, if there be a con- 

 fiderable portion of decayed vegetable matter in 

 it, or if it has been well dunged before. But 

 lime mould never be laid upon hungry, new land ; 

 for on fuch land it will be found to do more ill 

 than good. The foil, at any rate, fhould be well 

 jneliqrated preyioufly to planting. 



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