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Larch-cones may be sown among young plantations 423 

 Laurel, Common, makes good hedges 363 



Portugal - ib. 

 Laurustinus - . - 378 

 Laying young plants in the nursery 230, 525 



manner of performing the work 232, 233 



Lettuces an easy and enriching crop - 26 



Lifting plants for planting out 1 34, 230 

 Lime tree, soils t for 



its appearance 95 

 \ where it should be placed - ib. 



uses to which the timber is applicable 96 



layers, to be planted out - 253 



gathering seeds of - 504 



sowing of seeds of ib. 

 taking off the layers from stools 505 



laying down - - 506 



plants best adapted for converting into stools 507 

 JLombardy poplar - - 100 



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Manure, rank, unfit for nurseries 25 



in compost, for nurseries - ib. 

 Massing forests recommended - 30, 158 



of Firs recommende^ - 163 

 Mattock, hand, 1 92. Uses of - - 392 

 Melville's, Lord, letter to Mr Perceval, on naval timber 7 

 Mice, how to destroy in the nursery 337 

 Mortar, of lime, preparing for building walls with 310 



quality of sand requisite for making ib. 



quantity of sand required for - 311 

 Mountain-ash, gathering and storing the berries of 497 

 fifousetrap, nurseryman's, described - 247 



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Naval superiority, every thing depends upon maintain- 

 ing our - - - 13 

 ~ strength depends on economising the present 



stock of oak timber 15, 16 



Navy, increase of, forbids to slacken the planting of 



timber 6 



advice to supply timber for the future wants of 



the 15 



Nurse plants, kinds of * 160 



Nurses 



