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NOTICES OF AUTHORS. 



is just the reverse with regard to plants of a greater 

 age. In raising seedhngs, much skill and attention 

 is requisite, which the professional man can always 

 command at a much more reasonable rate than the 

 proprietor. In the treatment of plants after they 

 are removed from the seed-bed, the rent of the ground 

 is the chief source of expense, as any common garde- 

 ner will he able to manage them." 



" A general, and a very gross error, in purchasing 

 plants, is to consider those as best which are the 

 largest in proportion to their age. This absurd prin- 

 ciple of selection makes those nurseries most fre- 

 quented by customers which least deserve to be so, 

 such, namely, as are situated in the richest soils, sur- 

 rounded by the closest shelter, and stimulated by the 

 greatest quantities of manure. It is necessary, no 

 doubt, that plants should be of a size to suit them to 

 the situations for which they are intended ; but if 

 they have attained this size sooner than the due 

 time by being forced, they are in the worst state ima- 

 ginable for growing in a barren moor, or on the 

 bleak side of a mountain." 



Plants are often much injured, though raised 

 sufficiently hardy in other respects, by being too 

 much crowded in the nursery line." — " The surest 

 method that I know of enabling those who have little 



