NURSERY. 
ground, great care muft be taken to keep them free — 
ich would very often maké great havock am 
the beds if not timely prevented. Let this noi ferve 
be moft other forts of tree-feeds. As foon : the a 
e up, the beds réquire only to be kept c 
till they want thinning ; an d as the 
row, and leave the reft in 
arrive to the height of a five feet 3 
anted. 
’ ary with r 
their fare “aia depending on this point, of ee being w 
| take 
lin he foots of 
the .alders may be trimmed a little with the knife. The 
birches muft not be touc A e adds, that whether 
hi 
dered eae in a great meafure, - fee tender a 
He a oa until rain, and the influence of the weather, foften 
e, t erefore, for the better performance a) both 
headed: ae ad, for tae in with the as ; that e 
ftead of digging over the ground firft, and then planting in 
a flit or gat, whereby the fides of the flit are hardened, and 
r than 
main two years in the feminar 
nurfery fhould be their portion, referving better for the kinds 
to follow. They fhould alfo be planted in lines twelve 
inches afunder, and four in line: the roots of both being 
moderately trimmed with the knife. The beech and the 
oak are alfo to remain two years in the feminary, = fhould 
be planted in, good foil, in lines fifteen inches apart, and five 
or fix inline. Their roots on no account to be heh ed at 
this time ; otherwife not one-half of the plants will ftrike. 
They fhould remain for two feafons in this fituation ; at the 
e, fo 
effeCrally cut the tap root of each plant, with as “Tittle 
injury to the upper part as poffible, then pointing up the 
intervals of the rows, levelling all to the ftems of the plants. 
It is fuppofed, that at the end of the fecond féafon the plants 
will have made fibry roots, and be fit for removal to almoft 
any fituation. But, if for any particular purpofe it be 
neceflary to nurfe them longer, in that cafe they fhould be 
tranfplanted next feafon into frefh nurfery rows ; allowing 
hem a little more room, and fhortening all roots which have 
a tendency downwards. The .common 
h 
and any part of 
then be ees in lines fifteen ei apart, and four or five 
h fhould 
mo 
Oo 
— 
al 
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n 
wy 
w tions, they are frequently required 
of larger fize. If fo, at the fthe fecond feafon, they 
fhould be moved and planted into rows eighteen or twenty 
inches apart, and ei tine inches e; previoufly 
fhortening” all the roots that tend downwards, and tapping 
as advifed above, for h and oaks he elm, the 
hornbeam, and the i amore, are fometimes removed fro 
the feminary at one, and f s at = rs old; he 
prefers the latter, plantiog them’ in line twelve inche 
apart, and four in line. The rovts may ~ gently pruned 
if needful. And at the end of the fecond feafon they will 
e 
e fit for removal to any fituation, where foil to the depth of 
four inches 1s found ; but if i intended. fo or more barren {cites, 
e 
ie 
from'having made a ae of experiments for afcertaining 
the quickeft and moft advantageous methods of rearing this 
ufefal tree. And the refult of thefe experiments has proved 
meafure mi twelve feet. not el fo: 'eraight oy nero 
in their form 
The 
