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requeft, and faleable at any age or /ize, at almoft the 
price of oak; and the wood itfelf being as quick a 
grower as any, and quicker than moft; and above 
all, there being but few foils from the blackeft 
and wetteft bogs, to the higheft and moft expofed 
mountains, where it will not grow; are reafons 
why afh is one of the moft profitable woods to plant 
in fuch coppices as are favourable to its growth. 
In foils and fituations where afh does not grow 
kindly, let fuch other forts of wood be planted as 
appear to thrive beft iz fimilar foils and fituations in 
the fame country. 
Spanifh chefnut, though not fo general a grower 
as afh, is a moft excellent wood, either for timber 
or underwood, and wants only to be more known 
to be higher in eftimation. It partakes much of 
the properties of oak, but excels it in two points, 
viz. that it grows fafter, and that the fap part of the 
timber is firmer and lefs corruptible. 
To fill up woods that are grown thin, by age or 
negleét, the proper time is one year, or at the utmof 
two years, after the underwood is cut. The young 
plants fhould be eight or ten feet high, and an inch 
and an half in diameter at the ground, and fhould 
be planted without cutting off. Ifthe foil be dry, 
no other preparation is neceflary than barely dig- 
ging the holes for the plants. If wet, deep drains 
fhould be made to take off the fuperabundant 
water, ‘The earth dug from thefe drains fhould 
be 
