72 OF A NURSERY. SECT. VI. 



from drought, wet will drain away, and the young 

 plants pulh ftraight upward: four feet beds are bell. 



The enemies of feed beds mull be guarded againft, 

 as poultry, birds, dogs, eats, mice and frojt; the latter 

 by covering lightly with pea haulm or wheat firaw, 

 -and the former by furze, thorns, or brum wood, and 

 traps. If any bares, or rabbits, get at a nurfery, they 

 make fad havock in (harp weather, by barking the 

 young plants; therefore, guard agairft them, and larger 

 animate, by good clofe fences, which will alfo keep 

 out fharp winds. 



During thefi/jl year, they mould be kept moderately 

 cool, by watering in dry feafons, or laying mojs, or 

 feme fhort litter, over the beds. And as to weeding, 

 though they muft not be fmothered, yet fome fmall 

 weeds may be fuffered to grow in fummer, as they 

 help to made the plants, and keep the ground cool. 

 Seedling trees are very apt to fuffer by drought. Tbin~ 

 them in the fummer, after rain, from two inches to 

 three or four afunder, according to their nature; and 

 at the end of the year (i. e. when a year old) thin to 

 from nine inches to a foot afunder : thofe drawn may 

 ^be planted out at the fame diftancc, or at leaft the bell 

 of them; and thofe left Ihould be re-planted the fecond 

 year, left the roots ftrike too much downwards. The 

 ferft winter, they ought to be protected from fevere 

 f roils, by fome light dry litter, which remove in mild 

 weather. At all times, except winter, it the roots of 

 young plants are dillurbed by any means (as pulling up 

 ftrong weeds, hoeing, &c.) fettle the mould about them 

 by a good watering. 



S&cks defigned to grow for full ftandards, Ihould be 

 fet in rows, three or four feet afunder, and at one foot 

 and a half in the rows ; or if fet at the before-men- 

 tioned diltances, they may be tranfplanted again, ano- 

 ther year or two, wider. Rows for dwarfs need not 

 be fo far afunder as thofe for ftandards: but before 

 they are planted, the fide (hoots mull be trimmed off, 



