*ECT. VI. 



OF A N f URSERY. 



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and the tap roots fhortened, in order to procure a clean 

 ftrait flem, and a full root. 



Protect from fro/} all new planted trees, by laying 

 peafe, bean, or ftrong wheat flraw between them ; 

 which may be fecured by trampling or laying ftones 

 over it, or by pegging down. Seedlings, or ftocks, 

 planted out infprhig, mould be protected from drought 

 alio in the lame manner, a month or two, (or longer,) 

 and afterwards occafionally watered in dry weather. 



The fecund year, in October, thofe left at a ^ut a 

 foot diilance in the rows, may either be taken up and 

 re-planted, cutting the tap to make bufhy roots, or, 

 taking out every other, left to grow of a fize fit to 

 graff, or InoculcUe there. This year, only the ftronger 

 fide-fhoots from the ftem mould be cutoff; for the 

 weaker ones will help the ftem to thicken, by detain- 

 ing the rifmg fap, and imbibing moifture from the at- 

 mofphere to feed it ; and the getting a ftrong fhem is 

 a material thing, efpecially for ftandard trees. Do not 

 top the leading (hoot. 



Stocks of any kind will be three or four years grow, 

 ing, or two or three from planting out, before they 

 are fit for graffing ; and if ftrong flocks are wanted, 

 (as for ftandard s,) more time will be neceffary ; The 

 rule of fubftance may be from a quarter, to an inch, 

 or more diameter. As dwarf trees are grafted, or ino- 

 culated within five or fix inches of the ground, much 

 lefs flocks will do for them, than {or ftandard trees, 

 which are graffed at fo many feet high ; i. e, if for 

 full-fized trees. 



Stocks that are naturally of a flow growth, are co- 

 veted for dwarf trees, that they may not mount the 

 wall, fill the efpalier, or increafe to a large head too 

 faft. So for apples, inftead of crab flocks, which are 

 commonly of free growth, thofe raifed from the feeds 

 of the paradife apple are recommended as growing 

 dwarf. Or flocks may be raifed from cuttings of the 

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