NURSERY. 
recommending a poor hungry foil for a nurfery, it would 
perhaps in all cafes be beft to fet apart for this purpofe the 
richeft and moft fertile fpot that could be found; and in the 
choice of plants, always to prefer the youngeft and moft 
healthy, to ~~ as are older, if of an equal fize. This is 
given as the much experience in this bufinefs. 
And the praétical pee fuggefts, that fo much has been 
— pee the queftion, whether a papel fhould be 
for an’ oie fcale of ate that the a can be 
had recourfe to ; in other cafes it is no faving for a gentleman 
to rear a nurfery. a confines himfelf to the nurfing of 
Jfeedlings only on the fame principle; and from indifputable 
roofs, demonttrated cal by himfelf and others, who have 
lefs i panel to oo. . a di 
But if the foil w 
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violent winds, then the attem 
nutfery plants lesa healthy, a well- oes oppofed to 
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And after flating t at care and at- 
of 
erie “vale, with equal expectation of fecing i it rife a ae 
lan 
—That which is fuppofed by Mr. Nicol as 
this od gst is a loam of a middling 
o fand, neither rich nor poor, 
from a eee to foeie, ie inches in depth; lying on a 
3 as this will be found more ¢ 
the Si pope per Se "for 
i 
any oO other But th 
tion. If fee be a pra ria of foils, and if aie do not 
too nearly approach the extremes ‘of meagre fterility and 
exceflive fervility, fo uch the better, fince all the kinds do 
to its nature. 
young trees, and at the fame time clear it the moft effec- 
tually from vermin, as the grub and other infe&ts. And in 
the ime of cropping with timber t t the time 
of a a ~ efculents, manure, either fimple or in com- 
oft, may 
the crop i 
fhould immediately follow a 
beft of all methods; as in that cafe, no manure would be 
required for the timber ¢rop. e has 
w a field was taken 1 in for a eae from an old pafture 
as) 
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But the refalt was, that moft of the ie s, the Larches, the 
elms, the beeches, &c. bec a pre the vermin 
enfuing feafon ; and their ftems were found peeled entirely 
ut a 
n inch unde er the furface. For t is teafon, 
h. Evergreen and refinous trees, as before, &c. 
owever, for the extenfive plantations “of the duke = 
Portland, in Nottinghamfhire, where the foil is of a ligh 
fandy kind, fome well-fituated valley is ufually chofen, as 
near the centre of the intended plantations as poffible, for 
the purpofe of a nurfery. If'this valley is furrounded ies 
hills on all fides but the fouth, fo much the better. 
of ground, confifting of as many acres as is convenient ie 
the purpofe, is fenced about in fuch a manner as to keep out 
all noxious animals. At each end of the nurfery ig e 
Sele gates are fixed, and alfo a road made il the madd 
aes, the ne on each fide the road is trenched shot 
twenty inclies deep, which may be dorfe for about 3/. 10s. 
or 4/. an’acte, according as the lard is more or lefs gravelly. 
It is beft done in the fpring, when the planting fedfon is 
over. If after the trenching two or three chaldrons of line 
be laid oh an acre, the land will produce an excellent a 
either of cabbagés or turnips, which, being eaten off b 
fheep in the autumn, will make the land in fine order for ail 
forts of tree-feeds: but as the oak 1s the fott of tree culti- 
vated in general, this is the method purfued in raifing and 
managing that moft valuable fpécies. 
Culture of the Plants.—As {oon as the acoris fall, after 
being provided with a good quantity, {dw them ih the f fol- 
lowing ranher : Dratw drills ‘with a hoe in the fame manner 
as is praCtifed for peafe, and fow the acotns therein fo thick 
asnearly to touch each other, arid leave the {pace of one foot 
between row and row, and between évery fifth row the {pace 
of two feet for the alleys. While the acorns are in the’ 
4 ground, 
