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any thing more than of a middling quality. This-fact, if one 

 were wanting, is a sufficient proof of the utility of occupying 

 the ground as above advised, in the double character of a kit- 

 chen-garden and nursery." 



The foregoing remarks are applicable only to such nurseries 

 as are witliin the park, or contiguous to some part of the do- 

 main, and in which sufficiency of young stock may be reared 

 for the most extensive plantations. A few hints may be here 

 useful in regard to nurseries at a greater distance from home, 

 and intended for containing the trees, from the time of their 

 being put out in nursery lines to their final transplantation. 

 The situation of such nurseries is generally on or near the spot 

 intended to be planted, and are not to be considered as of so 

 permanent a nature as the home-nursery already noticed. A 

 somewhat sheltered spot should also be chosen for this kind of 

 nursery, and the soil, though poor, should be easily worked, in 

 order to facilitate the operations of hoeing and cleaning. It is 

 also of much consequence that such a spot be enclosed, suf- 

 ficient at least to keep out cattle, if not hares and rabbits also. 

 Here the young trees brought from the home-nursery, when 

 fit to transplant into nursery lines, or to bed out, should be 

 cultivated, till of sufficient size to plant out permanently. The 

 preparation necessary for such a piece of ground consists in 

 draining and trenching, or deep ploughing, which latter opera- 

 tion should be performed at least three times during the sum- 

 mer previously to planting, and be repeatedly harrowed, to 

 break the surface sufficiently fine to receive the young seedling 

 plants. Shelter may be obtained to such a nursery, first, by 

 the selection of a spot naturally sheltered by rising grounds and 

 fully exposed to the sun ; or, secondly, by planting quick-grow- 

 ing hedges, both as a boundary fence, and also for subdividing 

 the enclosed space into convenient departments. The sorts of 

 trees best calculated for these fences, are poplar of any sort^ 

 spruce, fir, elder, or privet. Larch has often been used for 

 this purpose, but is justly condemned by Sang and other nur- 

 serymen, as being liable to be overrun with the Coccus larixeo, 

 an insect peculiar to this tree, and which not only destroys those 

 which might be used for shelter, but would, to a certainty, in- 

 fect the young plants of that tree in the nursery lines. Spruce 



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