in gardening, is a piece of land set apart for raising and propagating all sorts of trees and plants to supply the garden and other plantations.

**NURSING OF CHILDREN**. See Lactatio.

The following observations are said to be the result of long experience. A child, when it comes into the world, is almost a round ball; it is the nurse's part to assist nature, in bringing it to a proper shape. The child should be laid (the first month) upon a thin matras, rather longer than the child, which the nurse will keep upon her lap, that the child may always lie straight, and only fit up as the nurse flants the matras. To let a child quite upright before the end of the fifth month, hurts the eyes, by making the white part of the eye appear below the upper eyelid. Afterwards the nurse will begin to let it up and dance it