JB/107/095/003

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Nursery

A nursery garden should
have variety of soils. One
division should be made
perfectly dry for mountain
plants. There should be
a means of overflowing
another for plants that
flourish only in a marshy
situation, of which there are
considerable numbers. Instead
of the wooden troughs
& cisterns in present use, a
pond should be appropriated
to water plants

Command of water at
the highest part of the ground
would be advantageous. The
whole might be watered from
it by means of channels
communicating with alleys
between the beds. Perhaps
one third or more of the
labour in a nursery during
the whole summer consists
in watering.

Part of the garden should
be divided into small enclosures
either with walls
or evergreens. In these
plants of warmer climates
are frequently reared, &
may in two or three seasons
be removed to more open
situations.

Independant of watering,
females & children
might perform at least
half the business of a
nursery garden as expeditiously
as men.

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Herbaceous plants should
be raised in a poorer soil
than that in which they are
to be transplanted. Each
species might be cultivated
in two divisions; one luxurient
as possible, the other
so as to bear removal into
poor ground.

Shrubs are often killed
at least stinted in growth
if removed from very rich
to poor ground.

Forest trees should not
be raised in a manured
soil. The same species must
not remain more than two
years on one spot.

Fruit trees require a
little manure.

Many flowers degenerate
if cultivated a second
year upon the same spot;
others continue as the
first.

Kitchen garden seeds
are frequently exchanged.
Flower seeds seldom.

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Mr Aiton placed exotics
during summer under the
shelter of high trees.

All good gardeners place
exotics so that they are shaded
from the sun part of the
day.

Moisture in green-houses
must be prevented.

It has been suggested that
if a winter house were
built to a north west exposure,
the plants contained
in it might be better preserved
than at present, as
They would not be excited
to push forth young shoots
too early.

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The prices of herbaceous
plants are at present not
by any means regulated
according to the facility
of their culture.

Seeds of the same plant
should be sold at different
prices according to the care
in collecting them.

The sale of plants would
probably be encreased, if
coloured engravings of
flowers were shown. At
present purchasers are at
a loss in selecting plants.

Identifier: | JB/107/095/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	nursery
Image	003	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	lady bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	35086
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