March.'] DESTROYING VERMIN. 289 



if intended for two-year feedlings. If the feeds 

 are good, they mould not lye nearer to one arr- 

 ther, when fown, than an inch. The bed or the 

 drill form may he adopted at pleafure. The co- 

 vering for beech-maft mould be a full inch thick. 



DESTROYING VERMIN. 



According as the fowing of feeds in the nur- 

 fery is increafed, fo will the care to preferve them 

 from definition by mice and birds require to be 

 increafed. New fown elm feed will be greedily 

 fought for by the birds, and the beech-maft by 

 the mice. 



PREPARING VACANT GROUND FOR GREEN 

 CROPS, &C. 



In the Introduction^ the advantage of a rturfery 

 being occafionally ufed as a kitchen garden, has 

 been mentioned. In all cafes, land which has 

 been long under trees, mould be refted by a crop 

 of vegetables with dung. We have already men- 

 tioned fome of the crops which may advantageous- 

 ly be ufed as preparing crops before fowing fome 

 forts of tree feeds. If, however, the crop which 

 . is immediately to follow be tranfplanted trees or 

 thorns, potatoes may precede with great propriety. 

 Beans, with manure, will alfo be found an ex* 



T eeilent 





