THE NURSERY- 453 



EVERGREEN CUTTINGS. 



The end of this month is a proper time for 

 making cuttings of Laurels, Yews, Privets, and 

 fimilar plants. The beft cuttings are the prefent 

 jear's moots, with about an inch of the laft year's 

 wood adhering to them. The leaves mould be 

 carefully cut off by the knife to within three inch- 

 es of their tops. The cuttings mould be nine 

 inches long, and mould be laid in to within three 

 inches of their tops, and placed perpendicularly. 

 The foil mo ft proper for them is fuch as is light, 

 very rich, and a little moift, but not wet : the 

 bed fituation is on a fhady border, which receives 

 the morning fun only. The land will be much 

 the better for being well manured, and for hav- 

 ing been under a crop of turnip or the like the 

 preceding fummer. It mould alfo have been dug 

 and kept clean during fummer till now.- 



GRUBS. 



By this time of the feafon, it not unfrequently 

 happens, that the one-year Larch, as well as other 

 forts of one-year feedling trees, are fadly infefted 

 with cutworms or grubs. Their prefence will be 

 known, by numbers of the young plants being cut 



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