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is a work not to be difpenfed with. Every dry 

 day, or even part of a dry day, muft be improv- 

 ed ; for, if the weeds be allowed to get ahead at 

 this time, farewel to all pleafure or profit in the 

 Nurfery for the feafon ! Nothing furely can be 

 more galling to a nurferyman, who has any feel- 

 ing, than to fee his ground overrun with weeds. 

 When he ceafes to be moved with this fight, he 

 is callous indeed ! Sometimes, however, it is not 

 his fault. From our previous obfervations and 

 directions in this department, it will appear that a 

 very fmall fpace of ground requires a vaft deal of 

 labour and attention. No nurferyman fhould 

 therefore be opprefled with too much to do, or 

 be refufed a fufficient command of hands, to ac- 

 complim every piece of work in its proper feafon. 

 Indeed, the matter who gives his nurferyman too 

 little help to do his work completely, is his own 

 punifher ; becaufe, in that cafe,, it rnuft be hur- 

 ried over in an imperfect manner, and fometimes 

 will not be done at all. If the nurferyman has 

 any feeling or fenfe of character, he becomes dif- 

 heartened ; the confequence is, that he takes the 

 tirfl opportunity to move from the place, A like 

 conduct to another fervant, in a fubfequent year, 

 produces a like removal. The perfon, therefore, 

 who works the ground, is conftantly unacquaint- 

 ed with its powers ; his attachments to, and in- 

 icreft in it, are flight, and never get eftablifhed. 



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