©F A NURSERY. 



SECT. VI. 



out half a yard apart, in rows a yard afunder. When 

 fiye or fix feet high, thev may be moved where they 

 are to remain : If the feed is good, it will fink in water. 



Walnuts are raifed from well-ripened nuts, (own 

 cither in autumn or fpring ; and if the latter (which 

 may be rather beft) p refer ve the nuts in their outer 

 coats, in dry fand. Thefe trees are beft but once 

 moved, and their tap root preferved, if for timber, with 

 •the head as entire as poftible ; but if ior fruit, the tap 

 root fhould be fhortened, to prevent the tree mounting, 

 and the head may be cut, to accommodate it to the 

 root, as to fize. The walnut likes a*dry foil, and if 

 gravelly, it does beft ; and though walnut trees are 

 many years before they come to bear, yet if it were 

 only for the wood, pofterity would have reafon to 

 commend the planter of them. 



Filberds are raifed from nuts, or fuckers, and layers, 

 the latter of which is the beft method ; or they may be 

 grafted on the common nut tree. The nuts fown in 

 autumn, or kept dry in fand till February, produce fine 

 trees, but generally differ a little from the forts fown, 

 and make a variety generally for the worfe. Nuts 

 fruit beft in a cool foil. 



Currants and goofeberries are raifed principally from 

 fuckers, flips and cuttings, but beft from the latter. 

 When from feed, it is with a view of obtaining varie- 

 ties, and hence the many forts of goofeberries in fome 

 catalogues. Ufe cuttings-, or flips, of the laft year's 

 wood, from fruitful trees, about nine or ten inches 

 long, and fet them four or five in the ground, half a 

 yard afunder; train them to one moot, (or at the molt 

 two,) the firft year, and the next head them down to 

 fix orfeven eyes, when a fine head will be formed the 

 following year, and in the autumn they may be moved 

 where they are to fruit. 



Barberries are raifed from fuckers, layers, cuttings, or 

 feed fown in autumn or fpring. The latter mode of 

 propagation produces the fineit ftirubs, with the largeft; 



fruit, 



