YHI NURSERY. [JUW. 



GATHERING ELM SEED FOR IMMEDIATE 

 SOWING. 



By the fecond week of this month elm feed 

 will be ready to be gathered for immediate fow- 

 ing. That which is of a good quality is eafily 

 known, by the feed being hard and firm in the 

 middle of the capfule. It is mifpent time to ga- 

 ther fuch feeds as are otherwife. 



Elm-feed, when newly gathered, efpecially at 

 this feafon, and kept together in a large quantity, 

 has, on account of the juicy nature of it? capfule, 

 a great tendency to heat. It will therefore be 

 proper to gather no more on one day than can be 

 fown on the following morning ; and it will even 

 be right to fpread the feeds thin during the night. 

 The neceffity of this precaution generally mows 

 itfelf : for, before they can be brought home in 

 the evening of the day on which they are gather- 

 ed, if there be a bufhel or two in the fack, they will 

 be found very hot. We have often obferved them 

 fo much fo, that if they had lain in that ftate till 

 the morning, many of them would never have 

 regetated. 







SOWING NEW GATHERED ELM-SEED. 



The fame quality of foil as recommended for 

 fowing Elms, in March and April, is required for 



the 



