58 THE NURSERY. [Jan. 
one winter or summer, or a year at most, it will sufficiently recover 
its vegetative force, and may be planted afresh. 
It will be of advantage to plant the ground with plants of a 
diff'erent kind from those which occupied it before. 
The tender or exotic plafnts of all kinds that require shelter only 
from frost, whilst young, as formerly mentioned, and by degrees 
become hardy enough to live in the open air; should such of them 
as are seedlings in the open ground, have the beds arched over with 
hoops or rods at the approach of winter, in order to be sheltered 
with mats in severe weather; and those which are in pots, either 
seedlings or transplanted plants, should be removed in October in 
their pots, to a warm sunny situation sheltered with hedges, &c., 
placing some close under the fences facing the sun, where they 
may have occasional covering with mats in frosty weather; others 
that are more tender may be placed in frames to have occasional 
covering either of glass lights or mats, &c., from frost; observing 
of all those sorts here alluded to, that they are gradually to be 
hardened to the open ground, and need only be covered in frosty 
weather; at all other times let them remain fully exposed, and by 
degrees, as they acquire age and strength, inure them to bear the 
open air fully; so as when they arrive at from two or three, to four 
or five years old, they may be turned out into the open ground. 
The sorts requiring this treatment are pointed out under their 
proper heads in the difterent months. 
The greenhouse kinds of all sorts, or such as require constant 
shelter in winter, are to be managed as directed under the article 
GREENHOUSE. 
And the hothouse or stove-plants, or such as require constant 
shelter all or the greater part of the year, together with the aid of 
artificial heat, are to be managed as exhibited under the article 
HOTHOUSE. 
PFork to be done in the Nursery. 
Young apple and pear trees may now be pruned agreeably to 
the rules laid down in March; though if your stock of these is not 
very numerous, and that you are desirous to have so much work 
done out of the way when the hurry of business comes on in spring, 
it will be quite as well to defer doing it till the end of February 
or beginning of March. 
Trim up the stems of forest and other hardy trees where they 
require it; this may be done when little else can in the nursery; 
for if it is performed in frosty weather the trees will receive no 
harm by the operation, especially the hardy deciduous kinds. 
Carry well-rotted dung or compost, and lay it on such parts of 
the nursery as require it. This may be necessary to such particu- 
lar quarters as have been lately cleared, and that are intended to 
be planted again with a fresh stock in autumn, taking oft" a summer 
crop of vegetables previous thereto; and when the frost permits, 
let it be trenched in regularly one full spade deep at least. If 
