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out, either from ley or ftubble, can be in fit con- 

 dition for tree feeds, efpecially of the finer and 

 more delicate kinds, the fame feafon. The befl 

 preparation is a light fallow crop of efculents j 

 fuch as lettuce, fpinage, or turnip. Potatoes, we 

 may remark, mould never precede tree feeds. 

 The ground mould be well manured for fuch 

 crops, and often hoed in the courfe of the feafon, 

 in order not only to clean, but to meliorate and 

 render it fine. When fuch crop comes off, the 

 ground fliould immediately be ridged up, that it 

 may be ftill further meliorated. It may be fit to 

 be fown by autumn or fpring, according to the 

 kinds of trees to be raifed ; but if it lye over win- 

 ter, the ridges fhould be again levelled in Novem- 

 ber, in order to give the ground a new furface. 



Even for the reception of feedlings, fuch a pro- 

 cefs as the above is commendable j although, if 

 the ground be in pretty good heart, they will fuc- 

 ceed very well after fufficient trenching and a win- 

 ter fallow. In cafes, therefore, where it is not 

 intended to prepare the ground by art efculent 

 crop, it fhould be trenched the earlier before 

 winter. 



It is hardly necefiary to remark, that in laying 

 out a Nurfery, whether fimply as fuch, or as a 

 field garden and nurfery combined, it will be 

 proper to have a broad walk, or cartway, to pafs 

 through the ground, and perhaps alfo to crofs it, 



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