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and other trees, I should think the hydraulic engine called the Quench-Jire, cHAP. II. 

 (described in the Philosophical Transactions, number 128,) might be '•"^"Y^^ 

 made very useful, if rightly managed, and not too violently pointed 

 against any single trees, but so exalted and directed, as the stream being 



them. This is to be done in the following manner : Let drills be made across the seminary, 

 at one foot asunder, and about two inches and a half deep, and let the nuts be put into 

 them at the distance of about four inches. In spring the young plants will come up. In 

 this situation they should continue for two years, being constantly kept clear of weeds, 

 when they will be of a proper size to plant out in the nursery. The ground should be 

 prepared, as has been always directed, by double digging ; and the trees, having their 

 tap-roots shortened, should be planted therein, in rows of two feet and a half asunder, and 

 at the distance of a foot and a half in the rows. Here they may remain, with the same 

 culture as has been all along directed for the management of timber-trees, till they are of 

 a proper size for planting out for good. If they are designed for standards to be planted 

 in fields, &c. before they are taken out of the nursery they should be above the reach of 

 cattle, which would otherwise wantonly break their leading shoots, though they do not 

 care to eat them, on account of their extraordinai-y bitterness. They ought likewise to 

 be removed with the greatest caution, and the knife should be very sparingly applied to 

 the roots. They must also be planted as soon as possible after taking up ; and this work 

 should be always done soon after the fall of the leaf, in the manner that will be directed 

 for planting out standard timber-trees. If these trees are intended to form a wood, for 

 which purpose they answer extremely well, I would advise to take them out of the nursery 

 when they are about three or four feet high, and to plant them about three yards asunder ; 

 and, after their heads begin to touch, they should be thinned. By this means, these large 

 and branching trees will be drawn up, with beautiful stems, to a great height. At the 

 last thinning of the trees, the standards should be left at about thirty feet distance : But if 

 the owner expects to reap the benefit of the fruit, the distance ought to be seven or eight 

 feet more. 



LIME. 



Procure the seeds from the red-twigged Lime, by beating them down with a pole in 

 October ; and spread them in a dry place for a few days before you sow them : Prepare 

 your beds four feet wide, and rake the earth out about an inch deep ; level the bed, and 

 then sow the seeds about an inch asunder, pressing them down gently with the back of the 

 spade, and covering them. In spring they will appear, and must be constantly weeded, 

 and watered a little in very dry weather ; before winter, sift some ashes over them to 

 destroy the moss. The plants must remain in the seed-bed two years, and then they will 

 be fit to plant out into the nursery in rows two feet and a half asunder, and each tree at 

 eighteen inches distance ; but before they are planted, shorten the roots a little, and cut 

 olF any side-branches. In this place they may remain for several years, (for they will 

 bear removing at any size,) with hoeing the weeds down in summer, and digging between 

 them every year ; but as you want them, it is better to take away every other tree, which, 

 by giving more air, will increase the growth of those that remain. 



