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The other principal divisions, therefore, of the Nursery-ground, 
are for the reception of the various sorts of seedling plants from the 
above seminary-quarters, also for all others that are raised from 
suckers, layers, cuttings, &c., there to be planted in rows from one 
to two or three feet asunder, according to their natures of growth^ 
observing to allow the tree and shrub kinds treble the distance of 
herbaceous perennials. Of the tree and shrub kinds, some are to 
be planted for stocks to graft and bud the select sorts of fruit trees 
upon, and other choice plants, which are usually propagated by 
those methods; others are trained up entirely on their own roots 
without budding or grafting, as in most forest and other hardy tree 
kinds, as also almost all the sorts of shrubs. Here they are to 
remain to have two, three, or several years growth, according as 
they shall require, for the several purposes for which they are 
designed in their future situations in the garden and plantations, 
&c., which are directed in their respective cultures. 
In a complete nursery it is also proper to allot some dry warm 
sheltered situation in the full sun, on which to have occasional 
hot-beds of dung or tan for raising and forwarding many sorts of 
tender or curious exotics, by seed, cuttings, suckers, slips, &c., and 
for which purposes you should be furnished with eligible frames 
and lights, hand glasses, garden mats, and other relative requisites. 
General mode of arranging the Plants of this department. 
In the distribution of all the various sorts of plants in the nurse- 
ry, let each sort be separate; the fruit trees should generally 
occupy spaces by themselves; the forest trees, &c. should also be 
stationed together; all the shrub kind should be ranged in separate 
compartments; allot also a place for herbaceous perennials: a 
warm place should likewise be allotted for the tender plants, and 
defended with yew, juniper, or private hedges, or a reed hedge, 
&c., in which compartments you may station all such plants as are 
a little tender whilst young and require occasional shelter from 
frost, yet are not so tender as to require to be housed like green- 
house plants, &c., so that in such compartments there may also be 
frames of various sizes, either to be covered occasionally with 
glass-lights, or some with mats, to contain such of the more choice 
of the above tender kinds in pots, to be nursed up a year or two, 
or longer, with occasional shelter, till hardened gradually to bear 
the open air fully. 
The arrangement of all the sorts in the open ground must 
always be in lines or nursery-rows, as formerly observed, to stand 
till arrived at a proper growth for drawing off for the garden and 
plantations; placing the fruit tree stocks, &c. for grafting and bud- 
ding upon, in rows three feet asunder, if for dwarfs, but standards 
four feet, and a foot and a half or two feet in the lines; though after 
being grafted and budded, they then commencing fruit trees, &c. ; 
if the}^ are to stand to grow to any large size, they should be 
allowed the width of five feet between the rows. Forest trees 
