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bookj with the name of the varieties to which the number-sticks 
are placed; whereby you can at all times readily have recourse to 
the sorts wanted. 
The same method may be practised to any other trees, shrubs, 
or herbaceous plants, especially the varieties of particular species, 
when they are numerous, as in many of the flowery tribe, such 
as auriculas, carnations, tulips, anemones, ranunculuses, and the 
like. 
With respect to watering the nursery plants, this may be very 
requisite in dry hot weather in spring and summer to seed beds, 
and tender seedling plants while young, and when first planted out, 
till they have taken good root; also occasionally to new-layed 
layers, and newly planted cuttings in dry warm weather; but as 
to hardy trees and shrubs of all sorts, if planted out at the proper 
time, that is, not too late in spring, no great regard need be paid 
to watering, for they will generally succeed very well without any; 
indeed, where there are but a few, you may, if you please, water 
them occasionally, if it proves a very dry spring in April and May; 
but where there are great plantations, it would be an almost insup- 
portable fatigue, and a great expense. 
Every winter or spring the ground between the rows of all sorts 
of transplanted plants in the open nursery quarters must be digged; 
this is particularly necessary to all the tree and shrub kinds that 
stand wide enough in rows to admit the spade between; which work 
is by the nurserymen called turning-in; the most general season 
for this work is any time from October to the latter end of March; 
but the sooner it is done the more advantageous it will prove 
to the plants. The ground is to be digged one spade deep, pro- 
ceeding row by row, turning the top of each pit clean to the bot- 
tom, that all weeds on the top may be buried a proper depth to 
rot: this work of turning-in is a most necessary annual operation, 
both to destroy weeds and to increase the growth of the young 
nursery plants. 
In summer be remarkably attentive to keep all sorts clean from 
weeds; the seedlings growing close in the seminary beds must be 
hand-weeded; but among plants of all sorts that grow in rows 
wide enough to introduce a hoe, this will prove not only the most 
expeditious method of destroying weeds, but by loosening the top 
of the soil it will prove good culture in promoting the growth of 
all kinds of plants; always perform this work of hoeing in dry 
weather in due time, before the weeds grow large, and you may 
soon go over a great space of ground, either with a common 
drawing hoe, or occasionally with a scuffling hoe, as you shall find' 
the most convenient. 
According as any quarters or compartments of the nursery ground 
are cleared from plants, others must be substituted in their room 
from the seminary, &c., but the ground should previously be 
trenched and lie some time fallow to recruit or recover its former 
vigour; giving it also the addition of manure, if it shall seem proper; 
and after being trenched in ridges, and having the repose only of 
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