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Kinds of Wood to be planted.—The kinds of wood 
to planted in coppices, either in making new ones, 
or filling up old ones, muft be regulated, partly by 
the demands of the country, but chiefly by the peculiar 
aptitude of the foil and fituation to produce particular 
forts. Let nature be your guide in planting, and you 
will feldom do wrong. 
Particular foils and particular fituations will al- 
ways favour particular kinds of trees; we need not 
look for the reafon, but only for the faz. The 
chalk hills of Hampfhire are peculiarly proper for 
beech. The flinty loams and clays of the fame 
county, for oak and afh;—the mofly fteep fides of 
the Wiltfhire downs, for hazel; and the fands of 
the fame county for afh;—the rugged and almoft 
naked rocks of Mendip, in Somerfetfhire, (near 
Cheddar) produce the lime tree and the walnut in 
the greateft luxuriance, and on the higheft parts of 
the fame Mendip hills, where no other tree can 
ftand the fea breeze, fycamore flourifhes as well 
as in the mott fertile valley. 
Taking the general demand of countries, and 
the peculiarities of different foils, into confidera- 
tion, there is no kind of wood fo generally proper 
for planting in coppices, as afh. The value of 
afh-poles being at leaft one-third more, and fre- 
quently as much again, per hundred weight, as that 
of other poles, (being applicable at all fizes to fome 
ufeful purpofe or other) the timber being always in 
requetft, 
