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 ufe. If the feafon is forward, you have Violet 

 flowers, Colts-foot flowers, Water-crefles ; and 

 the Birch tree will be fit to tap for the 

 juice. 



Work to be done in /^^ Nursery. 



You may now tranfplant mofl forts of hardy 

 foreft trees, and flowering fhrubs, provided the 

 feafon be favourable 3 otherwife it will be bet- 

 ter to defer it a little later. If you did not 

 take oflf the layers of Elms, Limes, and other 

 hardy forefl trees or (hrubs, in the autumn, it 

 fhould now be done, planting them into the 

 nurfery in rows three feet afunder, and eigh- 

 teen inches diftance in the rows ^ where maiiy 

 of the forefl trees may ftand four or five years 

 to obtain fl:rength, in order for tranfplanting 

 where they are to remain : but the flowering 

 flirubs fliould not fl:and longer in the nurfery 

 than two or three ; for the younger thefe are 

 when they are planted where they are to re- 

 main, they will more certainly grow, and will 

 make greater progrefs. 



The ground where you intend to plant a 

 nurfery of evergreens, fliould now be care- 

 fully trenched, obferving to cleanfe it from the 

 roots of all noxious weeds, particularly Couch- 



