NURSERY. 
The progrefs of this plant, i in infancy, has been found to 
follow in this courfe or all where he has made the ex- 
periment ; and thefe have been very different in quality and 
depth : 
One-year feedling. One year nurfed. , 
Ditto ditto. Ditto, removed fed y 
Ditto ditto. urfed in fame row two years. 
Two-year feedling. One year nurfed. 
, ; itto <cnoed and nurfed a fecond 
Ditto ditto : 
. eafon 
Ditto ditto. Nurfedi in the fame row two years. 
Ee ditto. ve for three years 
on ‘sal oil, it will continue to furpafs them 
fhallow foils; fince, by reafon of its {mall fize, it could be 
more eee ually planted? Whether = the two would be 
moft o fuffer a) inclement and confequently 
Tt is, therefore, co cimeuied that the 
e year old, and nurfed 
If 
nother year, in 
nd of one nur 
inches apart, and fix in line Beyond this, the larch fhould 
never be nurfe infant tap roots may be fhortened a 
he 
3 but after this ce fhould not be pruned at all in any 
d : and the 
t in rows; according to the 
intended, or the suslity and depth of foil wherein 
nted. In snes cafe, iti inches 
d i ar 
yea ine ; 
The tap roots oe the Coleg of either m may be fhorten 
little; but at the fecond, or any fubfequent ior their 
roots mult not be touche 
But the common or orway {pruce fhould be removed 
m inary at two years old, and nurfed in lines 
twelve inches apart, and three in lites ae t { ns: a 
c 
circumftances. Longer they fhould not be nurfed. If the 
are intended for bleak expofures and barren foil, they fhould 
be removed thereto at the end of the two firft feafons of . 
ans: if poffible. 
regard to the uick or white thorn, which is a mo ft 
end of one feafon, re the plants te, other lines, 
twelve inches apart, and four in line. The roots may be 
gently prun 
It is oblerved, that ¢ the reafon of oe them at the 
end of the firtt cai is ne encourage the progrefs ef their 
fibry roots. At the of the fecond, they will be fit for 
edging in any eerie whatever 3 nor will plants of any age 
or fize outgrow them within the third oP pie if ve are Lee 
perly kept clean afterwards, as he roved by repeated 
experiments made impartially on = ” different foils, fitua- 
tions, and expofures. 
eafon of Planting.—For the deciduous kinds, from the 
middle of February bout the 2oth of March is con- 
antage of wet ently wa- 
cen in a ry egies til the plants have ftruck root 
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2) 
And ‘the plants of all defcriptions fhould be carefully 
ept clean of weeds in the fummer months ; and the inter- 
Nursery, in Gardening, a portion of ground fet apart 
for the sine and nurfing various forts of trees, fhrubs, and 
herbaceous plants, to proper ftates of growth, for fupplying 
the different gardens, orchards, plantations, and other de- 
tments. 
Tn thefe saa ale are raifed all the different forts of fruit- 
plas and fruit- 
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green fhrubs ; training them up properly for the purpofes 
ml which they are defigned in plantations and pleafure- 
unds, 
“And various forts of hardy herbaceous ie both of 
the fibrous, bulbous, and tuberous-roote . may be 
here provided in proper ftates for being plnaoe 
Thefe different forts of plants are ratfed by feed, ‘fuckers, 
layers, cuttings, flips, offsets, parting the pated grafting, 
buddi va c. as ala Dg! their feveral head: 
nd as us forts are drawn off a nnually, 
fto 
in feed-beds, others tranfplanted in nurfery rows; fome o 
year, others two, three, or feveral years; all of which thould 
be 
