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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 de- 
signed 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, Sec. should also 
be stationed together; all the shrub-kind should be ranged in 
separate compartments; allot also a place for herbaceous peren- 
nials: a warm place should likewise be allotted for the tender 
plants; and defended with yew, juniper, or privet 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 occasion- 
ally 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 gradu- 
ally to bear the open air fully. 
The arrangement of all the sorts in the open ground must al- 
ways 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, Sec. 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 they are to stand to grow to any large size, they should be al- 
lowed the width of five feet between the rows. Forest trees should 
