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OF PROPAGATION. 



SECT. VI. 



The feafon for layers is (generally) the fame as for 

 cuttings, and fome forts will be well rooted in a year, 

 hut others will require two, and fometimes three 

 years before they will be fit to be moved. Thofe, 

 however, that are flow to ftrike fhouldbe layered as foon 

 as ever young fhoots are forward enough, which may 

 be in July or Auguft. This praftice is particularly 

 recommended for the p hy lie rea and alaternus. Cut off 

 the leaves of the part that goes into the ground, becaufe 

 fuch young wood will not well bear itripping. For 

 propagation of fruit trees by grajpngi fee the two next 

 ie£lions. 



SECTION VI. 



OF A NURSERY-. 



THERE are fomany refpeflable nurfery-mcn ready- 

 to fupply our wants, that the necejjiiy of anurfery 

 is in a great meafure done away; it affords, however, 

 employment, amufement, and an opportunity for exer- 

 cifing ingenuity, and that particularly in the way of 

 g raffing. 



By means of a nurjery, trees are ready upon the 

 fpot, to be tranfplanted without damage to the roots 

 from being long out of the ground, and the climate and 

 foil being the fame in which they are raifed and are to 



grow. 



