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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



We leave to the judgment of the operator to pro- 

 portion the thickness of sowing of the different kinds 

 of seed to the expected size of stem and leaf, imder 

 regulation of soil, season, and quality of seed ; and 

 to determine whether the plants may be continued 

 more than one season in the seed-bed, or be enthely 

 or partly drawn the first, which must depend on 

 theh luxuiiance and closeness ; also to notice if all 

 the seeds have vegetated the first season, or if many 

 of them still be inert ; in the latter case, the seedlings 

 must be picked out ; to facilitate T^iiich, the earth 

 may be gently raised by a three-pronged fork, ^^ith 

 as little superficial distm-bance as possible. 



In nm-series, the great and general error is having 

 the plants too close together, particularly in the row. 

 Eveiy nurser}^-row plant should be of a regTdar cone 

 figm-e, with numerous side-branches down near to 

 the root, and gradually ^^idening in the cone down- 

 wards. These would, indeed, occupy more space of 

 package, and probably not please the ignorant pur- 

 chaser, who generally prefers a clean, tall body ; but 

 they w^ould support the hardships of removal to the 

 moor, and be stately trees; when the comely, straight, 

 slender plants would either have died altogether, or 

 have become miserable, unsightly skeletons, or stimt- 

 ed bushes. 



