NURSERY* 



of which duties depends, in a great meafure, his 

 future fuccefs. We would here repeat an obferv* 

 ation which we have made already, narnely, the 

 propriety of gathering all feeds from the handfom- 

 eil and bed thriving trees of the kinds, which can 

 be found; rejecting the feeds of all ill-formed 

 trees, and fuch as have any diforder about them ; 

 always remembering, that plants may be exf>e&- 

 ed, in a greater or lefs degree, to inherit the good 

 qualities, or the defects, of their progenitors. 



GATHERING ASH-KEYS. 



By this time the feeds of Afli muft be fecured. 

 They are to be got, in great abundance and per- 

 fe&ion, wherever large trees of this kind are to 

 be met with. The flowers of the Afh are gene- 

 rally hermaphrodite ; but fome trees produce not 

 only hermaphrodite flowers, but alfo numerous 

 female flowers ; and other trees produce none but 

 thefe laft. The prolific trees are eafily diftin- 

 guiihed, at this feafon, by the profufion of bunch- 

 es of keys which they every where exhibit. 



When a fufficient quantity of Afh-feeds ha,s 

 been procured, they are to be carried to the rot- 

 heap, and to be mixed with light fandy earth, 

 and laid in a heap of a flat form, not more than 

 ten inches thick. This we advife, to prevent 

 them from heating. We have feveral times 



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