SECT. VI. 



bF A NURSERY. 



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and mulberries (as fometirhes cod! ins) are raifed from 

 fuckers, layers, and cuttings, without graffing ; but 

 from layers is the bed method, being more fare than 

 cuttings, and more fruitful than fuckers, and in one 

 year they will be rooted. The feafon for both cuttings 

 and layers (a little before or after) is Oclober, though 

 February is rather better for the fig. The layers from 

 fig trees muft not be taken off" till the beginning of 

 March, as when planted in autumn are apt to die; let 

 other layers, however, be then removed. 



Medlars are graffed on pear or crab, or fervice-tree 

 flocks; but more commonly upon medlar and white 

 thorn frocks ; though the fruit (on the laft at leaft) is 

 not reckoned fo good. 



Grape vines are generally raifed from cuttings and 

 layers, (fometimes from buds) either in autumn or 

 fp'ring ; but for cuttings rather the latter; and if the 

 vines are pruned in Februan, or before, lay the cut- 

 tings by in dry mould or iand, till March or April. 

 Place the layers in the ground, about four or five inches 

 deep, leaving two or three eyes out. The cuttings 

 fhould have three in the ground, and only one or two 

 out, or be about a foot or fifteen inches long, and 

 placed a little aflant : chufe the. moft fhort jointed. 

 Cuttings fhould have a knot of the old wood at bottom, 

 for thofe cut off above, though they may flrike, will 

 not produce fo good, or fruitful plants ; they are alfo 

 beft taken from the lower part of the tree, the wood 

 there being the moft ripened. Vines are be/i raifed 

 where they are to grow, by opening a hole, and placing 

 two cuttings in, one of which is likely to anfwer* 

 Keep it to one {hoot, and cut down to two eyes in au- 

 tumn. Keep to two fhoots the next fummer, and 

 prune down to two or three eyes in autumn, and then 

 the vine will proceed with vigour, and bear well, 



Che/nuts are raifed by fowing thofe that are imported* 

 three inches deep, and four afunder, in rows fix-inches 

 apart ; where growing two years, let them be planted 



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