THE NURSERY* 



able in the laying out of a new Nurfery. In this 

 bufmefs, much precifion is neceflary. In ordinary 

 cafes, it will be proper to trench the ground to 

 its full depth, fuppofing the upper foil or veget- 

 able earth to be about twenty inches or two feet 

 deep ; but in no cafe is it proper to trench up 

 crude, unmeliorated foil, in the preparation of a 

 feminary. Indeed, nothing could be more fatal 

 to the raifmg of feedlings, or even to the nurfing 

 of them when raifed. For the firft purpofe, it is 

 important that the foil be rich, mellow, and very 

 fine ; and for the fecond, that it be at leaft mel- 

 low, and homogeneous. 



In the trenching, therefore, it will be neceflary 

 to obferve to turn up none of the fubfoil, or poor 

 under ftratum ; and to be particular in making 

 the trenches of an equal breadth and depth, more 

 efpecially if the ground be inclined to wetnefs : 

 for if galls be left between them, the water will 

 ftagnate below, and very much injure the crop. 

 If the ground be broke out from the ley, the turf 

 mould be well broken, and be buried in the bot- 

 tom ; and in any cafe, as, if it be ftubble ground 

 or the like, the foil fhould be well mixed, and be 

 made fine with the fpade. The furface, however, 

 at this time, mould be left rough, that it may be 

 rendered the finer by the aftion of the weather, 

 before being cropped. 



It will very rarely happen, that ground broken 

 i out, 



