Chap, VIIL of Gardening. 17^ 



^nuts, you may, without opening Rills by the Line^ 

 make a Hole with the Setting-Stick at every Toot diftance, 

 and throw a Nut or Acorn into it i after which, you fill up 

 the Hole again, by turning the Earth into it with the fame 

 Setting-Stick, which is called pricking Fruit into the Ground. 

 This way of Planting makes great Difpatch, and yet is very 

 good. If you don't like to make ufe of it for Fruit, you 

 may open Rills, and fow it in them as you do Seed. 



You Ihould always take this fmali^ but ufeful Caution,, 

 to fix little Sticks atithe Ends of every Rill, or Trench, that 

 you may find the Rows of your Plantation again, and be 

 able to diftinguifh it from the Grafs, when you come to 

 weed the Nurlery, or to give it an After-Tillage. 



The right way to have a fine Nurfery, is to keep it in good 

 Orders this requires fome Care and Attendance, I ownj 

 but the great Advantage you will, one day, make of it, 

 fliould induce you to overlook the prefent Trouble. Grafs 

 fliould never be fuffered in it 5 fo that the Ground Ihould 

 be turned up four times a Year, and weeded as often as any 

 Crafs appears. 



To know the moft proper Seafons for this Tillage, I re^ 

 fer you to the foregoing Chapter, where is taught the Me^ 

 "thod of keeping Groves. In great Droughts, you muft be- 

 "ftow a little Water to comfort the young Plants, which are 

 too tender and weak of themfelves to withftand the violent 

 Heat of the Sun. 



It muft be obferved, that the Plants which rife from Seed 

 promifcuoufly fown in Rills, ihould be taken up the fecond 

 Year, and be replanted a Foot one from another, in other 

 Trenches 5 without this, they will grow too thick, hurt one 

 another; and you will not be able to draw then, convenient- 

 .ly, when you want them. 



Transplanting of thefe Trees may be compared 

 to what the French call Bdtardie/e^ in the cafe of Fruit- 

 Trees, which are drawn at two Years end out of the Nur- 

 sery, to be replanted and raifed in the ^ Bdtardtere i How- * ATfm^ 

 ever, I would advife one thing, in cafe you would beftow rreeslr7%^ 

 -the Pains, that when your Plantation has got fome Strength, to bcafter^ 

 -as the fecond Year^ .you would thin, and unfurniffi' it, by ^^^^^ ^^"^ 



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