NURSERY. 
pine 
ns the 
quired to fupply ; and if for public or r aaneral mination 
not lefs than three or four acres of land will be worth oc- 
cupying, and from that to fifteen or are acres, or more, 
may be requifite, in proportion to the dem 
The foil for nurfery.grounds fhould be of different qua- 
lities, in order that it"may {uit different forts of trees and 
ants. 
Nurferymen generally prefer a loamy foil of a moderately 
light nature: however, they may be formed of any good 
a good 
tually rich or good foil, fhould be ed _as the foil of 
nurfery cannot 
t is not rite, however, that the 
nured; a um 
foil of corn-fields is alfo cane! proper; any 0 ood 
on ‘aati earth, is likewife well 
different clea. It is alfo of ae to 
have auidlcey ereands fully expofed to the fun and free air, 
and, if poffible, where there is the convenience of havin 
water, for the occafional watering of young feedlings, and 
newly removed plants. 
en for private ufe, w 
it by ag walks, fo as to appear part of the garden or 
fhrubber 
M athod of inclofing, preparing, and laying out.—In refpec 
to the outfide fence, it may either be a hedge and ditch, or 
a palin e former is the cheapeft, and moft dura 
though, " where hares and rabbits ahead, paling enemas are 
mott eligible. 
Paling, or other fimilar clofe fence, is, however, in ge- 
neral, for fome part, extremely afefil to train young wall- 
trees to a proper growth for garden-walls, &c. 
After being thus fenced in, the ground fhould be all regu- 
larly trenched over one or two fpades deep, according to the 
natural eath of the foil: after pile proceed to divide it by 
walks into quarters, and other parts; letting a principal 
ae lead dire sa through ils middle, or fome principal 
part, which may be from five to ee or ten feet wide, ac- 
= coe to reuuieanees having a order on each 
fide. Another walk fhould be carried “al round, next the 
fe 
internal part by finalles aaa yr 8, as = form the whole 
into four, fix, or eight principal divi 
One or more of thefe divifions thoald | . appropriated for 
the reception of all forts of feeds, for raifing plants to fur- 
nifh the other parts ; fubdividing it into four-feet wide beds, 
with foot-wide alleys at leaft between bed and bed. In 
thefe beds fhould be fown feeds, &c. of all fuch trees, 
fhrubs, and herbaceaus plants, as are raifed from feed; and 
which fhould contain the various forts of kernels and lleries 
&c. and of numerous itil preades of the fibrous 
and bulbsuanctes tribe 
The feafon for ents is both {pring and autumn, ac- 
cording to the nature of saci different ine as may be fee 
under their different hea en the young tree aud 
fhrub eee Ro aaa thus vail ed, are one or two years old, 
they fhould be planted out in nurfery-ro ws, into the other 
principal divifions 5 ; but many kinds of herbaceous plants re- 
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Ieinds ‘of bralbones “feedlings ai oo & fit for eee ae in 
lefs than one or two years, at t cae fhorte 
veniently fituated for laying them down. See Srooxs and 
The cuttings, ele flips, offsets, &c. of hardy trees, 
fhrubs, and plants, may be planted out in ae convenient 
part of the pe in fhady one Cut r the more 
tender kinds, fome warm fheltered fituation fhould be pro- 
vided. 
upon, that are ufually repageted by fuch — others 
fhould be trained up entirely on their own roots, without 
udding and grafting, as in moft foreft and othe hardy tree 
kinds, as well as almoft all the forts of fhru 
Tt is alfo ope 7 ha me dry wa fheltere d fitua- 
tion in the full fun, in thefe grounds, for occafional hot- 
a of dung or tan, for g and fe g ma _ 
en s by feed, cuttings, fucker 
dips, &c. which fhould oe ‘tained with fuitable ames 
