4* 3 THE NURSERY. \_Junt\ 



as the weeds have fhown themfelves, they (hould 

 be picked out. The work of weeding and watch- 

 ing .the birds may go on together. The fame at- 

 tention to weeding all forts of briering tree feeds 

 is required. Indeed, univerfal cleanlinefs, in this 

 refpect, all over the nurfery, is required ; and any 

 nurfery man who wifhes himfelf to be efteemed in 

 his profeffion, although he were indifferent to the 

 fate of his plants, will ftudy to have his nurfery 

 in good order, as far as weeds are concerned. 



WATCHING BIRDS. 



The utmoft vigilance is required at this crifis : 

 it is a lofs at any time when birds pick up feeds 

 that are fown : But the lofs is much greater when 

 they are allowed to deflroy thofe vegetating feeds 

 or embryo plants which firft appear above ground. 

 Thefe will always be found to have been the befl 

 and mod perfect feeds ; and confequently the 

 moft choice plants are deftroyed when birds are 

 fuffered to pick them up. What is here faid re- 

 fpecls not only firs and larches, but is alike ap- 

 plicable to all the other kinds of which the birds 

 are fond. Hence the neceffity of a conftant and 

 uninterrupted attention in this refpecl:. 



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