NURSERY. [May. 



WEEDING SEED-BEDS. 



By this time the firs, and the feeds which were 

 fown laft month, will have a number of weeds 

 appearing among them. Thefe are to be picked 

 out with great care ; and the more early that this 

 work is performed, the lefs injury will the crop 

 fuftain, either in refpecl: of the ground being im- 

 poverifhed, or the briefing plants being choked up, 

 Indeed, if the firft weeding of the feed-beds be 

 delayed till the weeds come to a confiderable fize, 

 the crop will be much hurt, if not quite ruined. 

 Even a thick rifing crop of feedlings is often con- 

 verted into a thin one, by delaying the weeding ; 

 while a thin, crop is much improved by a timeous 

 and continued attention to weeding. A nursery- 

 man> who can negleft his young trees in the above 

 refpecl:, or even walk through his grounds when 

 his young plants languifh under weeds, without 

 the fevered compunctions, exciting him to relieve 

 them, is in no refpecl entitled to the name which 

 he aflumes. 



RELIEVING INCRUStED VEGETATING SEEDS* 



It not unfrequently happens, that the land in 

 which fir and larch feeds have been fown, becomes 

 battered by heavy rains. This will certainly hap- 



pen, 



