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. The remark respecting raised or sunk beds in the last article applies to the 
utsery as well as to the germinating bed. The nursery must now be shaded. 
Stay be done by laying grass or leaves on a light framework of sticks 2 to 
ns eet high over each bed. Another method is to sew rings on to Hessian and 
ce this over each bed on wires, but this is expensive, and causes a deal of 
an Hecessary work in moving, erecting, and removing. An ingenious method of 
letting I ata in the Mackay district was to plait blade grass into wire 
ay casily lifted for watering or weeding, and rolled up for remoyal- without 
"or disarrangement. The objections to low shade of any kind, however, are 
a the edges of the beds and frequently the two side rows of plants get dry 
th ‘unbnrnt, and when the plants get older, the shade being so near to them, 
°y suffer from want of light, air, and ventilation. 
nal xactly the same amount of shade 6 feet higher up makes a deal of difference 
van Owing free ventilation, both by day and night, and more light. Hence the 
on muy. accepted method of shading nurseries now is by leafy branches, &c., 
ite framework of saplings some 6 feet above the beds and covering the whole 
m8 Sa ~te., paths, drain, and all. To erect these, forked posts 7 to 8 feet long 
neith, anted 18 inches to 2 feet deep in the earth at the edges of the beds—ie., 
= ‘rin the beds nor in the paths. Ordinary scrub posts are cheapest, and if 
a Posts of such wood as fig, that will grow itself, is used the shading for 
ae nursery will be found to last out two seasons and perhaps more. Any 
“sive tendency to sprout on the part of the posts is easily checked. 
ihaoa eee forked posts should not be further than 9 feet apart each way; on 
trailayen saplings may be laid in the fork, and more across again. Any 
able 
Substance, such as grass, straw, green leafy branches, or cane-tops, 
onl 9 to cover them, but it is not necessary to thatch the top—tor we desire 
| a Shade, and not to keep out rain or all the sunlight. Grass or cane-tops 
voll est, but, will need removing again later on, and large leaves such as banana 
Taare Yain-water and Revs it out.on one spot in the bed below, washing away 
the 8 and damaging the bed. Branches or small-leaved trees or bushes make 
o® Safest, shade, and the leayes generally will gradually fall off and naturally 
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f f: the shade as time goes on, which is an advantage, since to obtain hardy 
Month es seedlings the shade has to be gradually reduced from the third 
a until within two or three weeks of planting out, when the bare 
sh rat ee «will give quite sufficient shade. The special advantages of high 
3 © are that while costing very little more than low shade, if any, it allows of 
remeccess and of working under and watering, allows free play for air and 
ition, and produces straighter and better plants. 
the 1: the Sea eaang beds have been made on the site of the nursery itself, 
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ies bed, and the latter removed as soon as the other is completed. The 
Saab Seedlings must then be carefully watched until the seed leaves open, and 
ee “e removed to the large nursery beds. The seedlings will not all open at 
rite care must be taken not to take out half-open seedlings or those 
Or t e follicles have not yet burst the putamen or parchment-like covering, 
will Bare will take a very long time to do so, once transplanted, and possibly 
earefut 4 pen at all. Pull up each seedling with the finger and thumb. Be 
| Vill. to pull straight up, or the taproot will break ; if pulled straight the taproot 
a about 3 eee long and fibrous, and must then be nipped back to a length of 
ches, ; 
thie $ Rie : : SUE ideas. Be 
(a, good plan, in planting up a nursery froma germinating bed, to prepare 
algal (by ‘tiging or wajaienye up to a depth of at least 1 foot and camaaiin 
} _ 8 and stones and even hard lumps o earth) one bed or so a day, and 
Urine UP first thing in the morning all seedlings that have opened their leaves 
6 the night, and plant them out at once. 
and qe” bed should be watered an hour or two before the plants are put in, 
the pect or very soon afterwards ; but not immediately before planting, or 
P will become too wet and muddy. . 
he netting is just the width of the bed, and this covering can be 
should be built over the low shade already on the. 
