NURSERY. 
They are alfo fometimes planted by raking or trimming 
‘the earth from off the top of the beds from about three’to 
four or five inches deep, into the alleys, then placing the 
roots in rows upon the furface, thrufting the bottoms a little 
into the ground, and immediately covering them with the 
earth which was drawn off into the alleys, {preading it evenly 
over every part, fo as to bury all the reots at an equal depth 
in the foil. 
The tender kinds of exotic plants, that require occafional 
fhelter whilft young, fhould many of them be ed, in 
order for moving to' warm fituations in winter, or fome into 
frames, &c. to have occafional fhelter from froft by glaffes 
or mats, as they may require; hardening them, however, 
by degrees, to bear the open air fully in the nurfery the year 
round. And the moft tender kinds that require the aid of a 
greenhoufe or itove, fhould all be potted, and placed in their 
GREENHOUSE and STovE PLants 
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cut it down low in fpring, to fhoot out again, traming the 
main fhoot for a ftem, with its top entire, till grafted or 
budded. See Grartinc, Buppine, and TrRarInine. 
But in the culture of the fruit-tree kind, the forts defigned 
for principal wall-trees, particularly fuch as peaches, nec- 
tarines, apricots, &c. fhould, when of one year’s growth 
from grafting and budding, be planted againft fome clofe 
fence, as a wall, paling, reed-hedge, &c. and their firft 
graft or bud-fhoot headed down in the fpring, to promote 
an emiffion of lower lateral fhoots and branches, in order to 
be regularly trained to the fence ia a fpreading manner for 
two or three years, or till wanted to form the head in a re- 
gular {preading growth, which, in public grounds of this 
And a fimilar training, both for 
wall and efpalier fruit-trees, may be practifed with fome 
principal forts in the nurfery-rows in the open quarters of the 
ground, by direéting their branches, in a {preading manner, 
to ftakes placed for the purpofle. 
Standard fruit-trees fhould only be trained with a clean 
fingle ftem, five or fix feet for full ftandards, by cutting off 
all laterals arifing below ; half-{tandards fhould be trained 
with three or four-feet ftems, and dwarf ftandards in pro- 
portion, by the fame means. 
Forett-trees fhould, in general, be encouraged to form 
ftraight clean fingle ftems, by occafional trimming off the 
largeft lateral branches, which alfo promotes the leading top- 
fhoots in rifing ftraight, and fafter in height, always fuffer- 
ing that part of each tree to fhoot at full length ; that is 
not to {top it, unlefs where the ftem divides into forks, when 
the weakett fhould be trimmed off, and the ftraighteft and 
ftrongeft fhoots or branches left to fhoot out at their proper 
length, to form the afpiring tops. 
The different forts of fhrubs fhould moftly be fuffered to 
branch out in their own natural way, except merely regu- 
lating yee any growths; and fome forts may be 
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thered to the bottoms of the 
a ready recourfe may be had to the forts wanted. 
And it is ufeful to employ the fame means to trees, fhrubs, 
and herbaceous plants, efpecially the varieties of particular 
{pecies, when they are numerous, fuch as in many of the 
owery tribes; as auriculas, carnations, tulips, anemones, 
ranunculufes, &c. 
atering nurfery plants is very requifite in dry hot wea- 
ther, in fpring and fummer; fuch as feed-beds and tender 
feedling plants, while young, and when fir 
till they have taken good root ; alfo occafionally to new-laid 
layers and newly planted cuttings in dry warm weather ; but 
as to hardy trees and fhrubs of all forts, when planted out 
at the proper time, as not too late in the f{pring, no great 
regard need be paid in this refpet, as they generally fucceed 
very well without, 
The next bufinefs is, in every winter or fpring, to dig 
the ground between the rows of all forts of tranfplanted 
plants in the open nurfery quarters, a pra¢tice which is par- 
ticularly neceflary to all the tree and fhrub kinds that ftand 
wide enough in rows to admit the fpade between them ; this 
work is, by the nurferymen, called turning-in; the moft 
general feafon for which 1s, any time from O@ober or No- 
vember until March, but the fooner it is done the more ad- 
vantageous it will be to the plants. The ground is to be 
dug only one fpade deep in thefe cafes, proceeding row b 
row, turning the top of each {pit clean to the bottom, that 
all weeds on thetop may be burieda proper depth. It isa 
mott neceffary annual operation, both to deftroy weeds, and 
to increafe the growth of the young plants, 
‘And in the fummer feafon, great attention is neceflary to 
keep all forts clean from weeds; the feedlings growing clofe 
in the beds muft be hand-weeded ; but among plants of all 
forts that grow in rows wide enough to admit the hoe, it will 
prove not only moft expeditious, but, by loofening the top 
of the foil, promote the growth of all kinds of plants. It 
fhould always be performed in dry weather, and before the 
weeds grow large. See Hor and Hogine. 
As foon as any quarter or part of thefe grounds is 
cleared from plants, others muft be introduced in their room 
from the feminary ; the ground being previoufly trenched 
ne for the purpofe, giving it the addition of manure if ne- 
ceflary. 
It fuppofed by fome to be of advantage to plant the 
round with plants of a different kind from thofe which 
occupied it before, but this is probably not very material 
The tender or exotic plants of all kinds that require fhelter 
only from froft whilft young, and by degrees become hardy 
enough to live in the open air, fhould, {uch of them as are 
feedlings in the open ground, have the beds arched over with 
hoops or rods, at the approach of winter, in order to be 
fheltered with mats in fevere weather ; and thofe which are 
in pots, either feedlings or tranfplanted plants, fhould be 
removed in Oétober in their pots to warm funny fituations 
fheltered with hedges, &c. placing fome clofe under the 
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