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Afli trees (as common a coppice wood as any in 

 this country) have been particularly mentioned. 



In vol. i. page i66,* Mr. Edmund Rack gives 

 you a particular flatement of the produce of one 

 acre and half in ten years, producing 48I. 



If Mr. Rack be living, I fliould have been glad 

 to have aflced him the fize of the 3 1 00 poles, fold 

 for 39l.'6d. and whccher 2000 poles are not rather 

 an unufual produce upon an acre. 



In vol. i. page 137, Mr. J. Fletcher gives tlie 

 fame aflonilhing account of the value of afh. 



In vol. V. page 271, a correfpondent with the 

 fecretary, who figns W. B. B. gives an extraor- 

 dinary account of the produce of an afti plantation 

 in Warwickftiire, of fourteen years after planting, 

 felling for 70I. per acre; and hkewife gives an ac- 

 count of the mode which was obferved in planting, 

 which is clear enough, excepting in one particular, 

 page 275, from the beginning of the firfl: line, reading 

 on the nine following lines, which confufes the whole 

 procefs. The throwing of the earth one way and 

 digging of it another, without fome explanation by 

 a drawing or otherwife, cannot be underflood. 



I am at prefent clearing of 50 to 60 acres of land 

 only applicable to coppice wood, and fhould be glad 

 to receive a lelTon from the Warwickfhire planter. 



* There art two or three editions of this volume) and of feveral 

 others. 



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