150 [ Feb - 
THE NURSERY. 
{t?" The various instructions given in the course of this month, 
for the Nursery, as far as they relate to work which is to be done 
in the open ground, are on the presumption that the severe winter 
frosts, have, towards the end of the month, disappeared, and that 
the ground at that time, is in a fit state for cultivation; at least suf- 
ficiently so, for the reception of plants of a very hardy nature, and 
such as, if planted, could receive no injury whatever, from any sub- 
sequent frost or severity of weather, and that will succeed better by 
taking the earliest possible advantage of the season: moreover, it 
is the better way to have as much of your business done at as early 
a period as possible, the better to enable you to meet she great 
pressure, which, with respect to planting, sowing, grafting, &c. &c. 
must be attended to in March. 
But when the weather in the latter end of this month is severe, or 
the ground bound up by frost, there is no alternative, but to defer 
the business till the arrival of a more favourable period. 
Propagating by Cuttings, Sfc. 
Plant cuttings of gooseberries and currants, according to the rules 
laid down in next month and in October; these will form tolerable 
branchy heads by the end of summer, and will produce fruit in a 
year or two after. 
Be careful to train these trees always with a single stem, six or 
eight, to ten or twelve inches high, before you form the head. 
Plant also cuttings of honey suckles, and ojther /tardy flowering 
shrubs and trees; as many different sorts may be propagated by that 
method. 
The cuttings must be shoots of the former year's growth: choose 
such as have strength, cutting them from the respective trees and 
shrubs in proper lengths; or long shoots may be divided into two 
or more cuttings, which should not be shorter than eight inches, nor 
much longer than twelve. Plant them in rows two feet asunder, at 
six or eight inches distance in the row, putting each cutting two 
thirds of its length into the e^rth. 
Most kinds which are thus planted now, will befwell rooted by 
next October. 
Propagating by Suckers. 
Many kinds of trees and shrubby plants, furnish abundance of 
suckers from the roots for propagation, particularly robinia's roses, 
lilacs, syringas, and many other hardy kinds: the suckers may 
now be separated from the parent plants, each with some roots, and 
planted either in nursery rows for a year or two, or the largest, at 
once, where they are to remain. 
