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Show Sr NU NU in which they ate to remain during the Winter- out a Nurfery both for Trees and Flowers, in which there are continually new Varieties of feafon. In mild Weather you muft let your hardy Fruits, Timber, or Flowering Trees, and choice Exoticks have as muchfree Air as poffible, by Flowers, rais’d for a Supply of the feveral opening the Safhes every Day 5 and you mutt Parts of the Garden, Orchard, and Wildern every Daylook over ’em, to fee which of ’em TheSize of this Nur/éry muft be proportion’d wants Water, which fhould nowbe given them to the Extent of your Garden, or defign’d in the Morning, that the Damp maypafs off Plantation ; fo that it is impoffible to be exad before the Windows are clofe fhut in the Even- in determining the Quantity of Ground necef= + C Jac. : But for a ing: You mutt alfo pick off all decay d fary to be employ’d in this Way Leaves which may be upon the Plants, and Nurfery of Fruit, Foreft, or Flowering Trees, may be very injurious to them if futfer’d to there fhould not be lefs than two orthree remain long upon ’em, byinfecting the Airof Acres for a large Garden ; but for a fmall the Houfe, and caufing it to turn rancid, Garden half an Acre will be fufficient. And which being imbib’d by the Plants, renders for a Nurfery for Flower Roots, Plants, 8c. one Acrefora large Garden, and a Quarterof themfickly. The Weathernowgrowing colder, you muft an Acre fora {mall one, will be enough. But increafe the Fires of the Stoves in Proportion this (as I faid before) cannot be well limited ; thereto, obferving not to make ’em too hot, fince fome Perfons, who are very curious in which would occafion the Plants fhooting ; raifing vaft Quantities of new Flowers from nor fuffer them to be too cold, Jeft their Seed, will employ more than three times the Leaves decay and drop off, which will be Groundthat is neceffaryonly to raife a Supply equally injurious to them. You mutt alfo of Flowers for their Borders, whichare either give °em Water as often as youfhall find they annual, or biennial], and require to be brought require it; but the Water fhould be placedin the Stove at leaft twenty-four Hours before it be us’d, that it may have acquir’d a propor- tionable Heat to the Air of the Stove; and be very careful to pull off all decay’d Leaves, as alfo to wath and clean ’em from Infects and Filth, which they are very fubject to contract at this Seafon. up to fupply the Place offuch as have flower’d and decay’d. But I fhall firft take Notice of the Method for Raifing a Nurfery of Fruit or Foret Trees : In doing of which, you should obferve, That the Soil in which you make the éry be not better than that where the Trees are to be planted out for good: The not ob- You muft not fuffer your 4zana’s to remain in the Bark-beds longer than the Beginning of this Month, when, in a fine warm Day, you fhould remove ’eminto the Stove, placing them where they may have a great Share of Heat, without which they will not produce Fruit. ferving this, is the Reafon that Trees are olten at a Stand, or make but little Progrefs, for three or four Years, after they come from as it commonly happens to fuch Trees as are rais’d near London, andcarry’d into the Northern Parts of England, where Plants now in Flower in the Green-houfe Method well: Therefore ic is by far the bett (when you have obtain’d the Sorts you would propagate) to raife a Nurfery of and Stove. Some Sorts of Alves, Ficcides’s, Sedums and Cotyledons ; Anemonofpermos’s two or three Kinds ; Leonurus, Candy Tuft Tree; Yellow Indian, Spanifh, Azorian, and Ilex-leav’d Fa/ mines ; Geranium feveral Sorts, Chry/anthemum arborefcens, Doria’s two or three Sorts, Senecio folio retufo, Large Blue Virginian Starwort, Double F menfis, Papaw, others. NUCIFEROUS TREES, are fuch which oduce Nuts. being planted in a poor Soil, and a much colder Situation, their Fruits feldom Epe feveral Sorts of Stocks proper for the various Kinds of Fruit upon which you may bud a graft them ; and thofe Trees which are thi rais’d upon the Soil, andin the fame Deg of Warmth where they are to be pla will fucceed much better than thofe brou} ‘ from a greater Diftance, and from 4 richer Soil. 2. This Ground ought to be frefh, and : fuch as has been already worn out by ae st other Jarge-growing Plants 5 for in fuch 90 your Stocks will not make any Progrefs. io 3. It ought not to be too wet, nor Ol”, NUMMULARIA, [takes its Name of dry, but rather of a middling Nature 5 Le Nummus, Lat. Money, becaufe its Leaves, by of the two Extremes, Dry is to be prefer” © their Roundnefs, refemble Money : It is alfo call’d Centimorbia, as tho’ it were a Plant that cures an Hundred Difeafes.] _Money-wort, or Herb Two-pence. This Plant grows wild in fhady moift Places in divers Parts of England: Butas it is feldom cultivated in Gardens, fo I thall fay nothing of its Culture in this Place. _ NURSERY : There is no fuch thing as having a fine Garden or Plantation, with- Becaufe in fuch Soils (tho’ the Trees do make fo great a Progrefs as in moilt) yet, aie are generally founder, and more difpos¢ *™ Fruitfulnefs. . a tt 4. You mutt alfo obferve to inclofe Cattle and Vermin mayn’t will make fad Havock with efpecially in Winter, } when the cover’d with Snow, that they h Food which they can come moft mifchievous of thefe A and Rabbits, which are great Deftroyers of rais’d from Seeds, as the Pear Stocks, young Trees at that Seafon, by eating offall muft be treated in the fame manner; their Bark, therefore you muft carefully guard thofe procured from Suckers, &c. are your Nurfery againft thefe Enemies. near fo good: But for fmall Gardens, The Ground being inclos’d, fhould be carefully trench’d about eighteen Inches, or two Feet deep, provided it will allow it; this and for not the Paradife Stock hath been of late greatly efteem’d; it being of very humble Growth, caufeth the Fruit Trees grafted or budded fhould be done in Augu/?, that it may be ready thereon to bear very foon, and they may be to receive young Stocks at the Seafon for kept in fmall Compafs: But thefe are only Planting, which iscommonlyat the Beginning proper for very fmall Gardens, or by way of of Ofober. In Trenching of the Ground, you Curiofity 5 fince the Trees thus rais’d are but muft be very careful to cleanfe it from the of fhort Duration, and feldom arife to any Roots ofall noxious Weeds, fuch as Couchgrafi, Docks, &c. which, if left in the Ground, will getin amongft the Roots of the Trees, fo as not to be gotten out afterwards, and will fpread and over-run the Ground, to the great Prejudice of your young Stocks. After having dug the Ground, and the Seafon being come for Planting, you muft level down the Trenches as equal as poffible; and then Size to produce Fruit in Quantities, unlefs the Graft or Bud be bury’d in Planting, fo that they put forth Roots, and then they will be equal to Trees grafted upon free Stocks, fince they receive but fmall Advantage from the Stock, Jay out the Ground into Quarters, propor- For rais’d or the {trong Cherries, you fhould make ufe of Stocks from the Stones of the common Black, wild Honey Cherry, both of which are free Growers, and produce the cleaneft tionable to the Size thereof; and thofe Quarters may be afterwards laid out in Beds, Stocks, For Plums, you may ufe the Stones of for the fowing of Seeds, or the Stones of moft free-growing Sorts; which will alfo do very well for Apricocks, thefe being not fo The beft Sort of Stocks for Peaches, Neéa- difficult to take as Peaches or Neéfarines: but es, &c. are fuch as are rais’d from the (as I faid before) thefe fhould not be rais’d Stones of the Mujcle, and White Pear-Plum : from Suckers, for the Reafon there affign’d, But you fhould never plant Suckers of thefe, but rather from Stones. (which is what fome People practife); for There are fome Perfons who recommend Fruit. thofe feldom make fo good Stocks, norare the Almond Stock for feveral Sorts of tender ever well-rooted Plants: Befides, they are very fubject to produce great Quantities of Suckers Peaches, upon which they will take much better than upon Plum Stocks: But thefe from their Roots, which are very troublefome inthe Borders or Walks of a Garden, and being tender in their Roots, and apt to fhooe annually, or at leaft every other Year, fow Peaches which will not take upon Plum Stocks, early in the Spring, are by many People redo greatly injure the Tree ; fo that you fhould jected: And I think, if fuch tender Sorts of a few other Stones, that you may never beat were budded upon Apricocks; they would take very well; as would all Sorts of Peaches a Lofs for Stocks, For Pears, you fhould have fuch Stocks as which are planted upon dry Soils continue have been rais’d from the Kernels of the Fruit muchlonger, and not be fo fubjeét to blight, where Perry hath been made; or elfe preferve if they were upon Apricocks; for it is obthe Seeds of fome Sorts of Summer Pears, ferv’d, that upon fuch Soils where Peaches which do generally fhoot ftrong and vigorous, feldom do well, Apricocks will thrive exceedas the Cui/i Madam, Windfor, 8c. which you ingly; which may be owing to the Strength fhould fow for Stocks, early in the Spring, and Compaétnefs of the Veffels in the 4priupon a Bed of goodlight frefh Earth, where cocks, which render it more capable ofaffithey will come up in about fix Weeks, and, if milating or drawing its Nourifhment from the kept clear from Weeds, will be {trong enough Plum Stock, whichin dry Soils feldom afford But it in great Plenty to the Bud; and the Peach for many Sorts of Summer and Autumn Pears, Tree being of a loofe, fpungy Nature, is not fo capable to draw its Nourifhment therefrom, which occafions that Weaknefs which is commonly obferved in thofe Trees when planted to tranfplant out the Ofober following. Quince Stocks are preferable to free (i, ¢. Pear) Stocks; thefe are very often propagated from Suckers, which are generally pro- duced in Plenty from the Rootsofold Trees : on a dry Soil. There are fome People who of late have but thofe are not near fo good as fuch as are Propagated from Cuttings, which have always budded and grafted Cherries upon Stocks of much better Roots, and are not fo fubje& to Produce Suckers as the other; which is a very defirable Quality; fince thefe Suckers do not only rob the Trees of Part of their Nourifhment, but are’ very troublefome in a Garden. Apples are grafted or budded upon Stocks rais’d from Seeds which come from the Cyder the Cornifh Cherry, which, they fay, will render the Trees morefruitful, and lefs luxuriant in Growth, fo that they may be kept in lefs Compafs; thefe Stocks having the fame Effe& upon Cherries, as the Parade Stock hath on Apples. Having provided your felf with young Stocks of all thefe different Sorts, which fhould Prefs, or upon Crab Stocks; the latter of which are efteem’d for their Durablenefs, efpe- be rais’d in the Seminary the preceding Year, ciallyfor large Standard Trees ; thefe fhould be in Offober (as was before directed ) into the 6A Nurfery, you fhould proceed to tranfplanting of them |