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CERTAIN ELEMENTS IN NURSERY PRACTICE‘I’rizs Nanual deals with t.he propagaf~ion of pla,nt,s, notwith business aid r~onnn~~r~kl management. Yet certainphases of the nursery business naturally follow the treatmentFIG. l!N. The Rmgg tree-digger.of propagation, king to do with the growing and saving ofthe young stock ; t,lwse sui)jects we may now consider briefly.In the IYtecl States and Canada a nursery is understoodto be an outdoor area! mostly of several or many acres, inwhich the propagation of trees and shrubs for commerce isthe dominant feature. It. is this kind of nursery we are nowto discuss. Yet, in fact, a< nursery is any area or esta.blishme&in which plants are propagated a.nd nursed, whether a