232 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



Name of Copse 

 or 



Plantation. 



No. of 

 Estate 

 Block. 



B Area. Soil and Situation. 



Method of 

 Treatment. 



Bradshott "Wood. VIII. d 



A loamy clay, from 

 the Upper Green - 

 sand, on a slope 

 with a S. expo 

 sure ; moist even 

 mi the slope, and 

 wet at the bottom . 



Copse. 



Description of Timber Crop. 



Bradshott VIII. 



Plantation. 



A loamy clay, on a 

 gentle slope fac- 

 ing N.E. 



Bushy Copse. VIII. 



with Snap Row, 1 

 Island Copse. \ VIII. 



with Duck Row, 



The bulk of the underwood con- 

 sists of hazel, willow, ash, and 

 birch, with field maple and 

 alder in the wetter parts. In 

 portions the stock is fairly 

 complete, but in other parte 

 there are blanks, some of which 

 are occupied with bracken. 

 Sets of willow were put out in 

 1896 to till blanks in area then 

 felled, but the majority of 

 those have not succeeded in 

 establishing themselves. 



Young Similar to VIII. B, with blanks 

 plantation filled in similar manner in 

 for High j 1898. The growth of larch is 



Forest. I good at the W. end, which is 

 completely sheltered by copse 

 and high oaks, the shoots of 

 1899 measuring up to 3 feet 3 

 inches. Throughout the rest 

 of the plantation the growth 

 is rather poor, especially in 

 the moister portion. The 

 Corsicau pine and Douglas fir 

 are not as yet doing well. 

 The ash and sycamore, planted 

 in blanks in autumn of 1898. 

 have done well considering the 

 hot dry summer of 1899. Self- 

 sown seedling oaks are coming 

 up along the S. edge. 



14 J 



l A loam} - clay, on 

 y gentle slopes 



Copse. 



with S. aspect. 



Squiresfield VII. 



Hanger. 

 Homefield VII. 



Hanger. 

 Lane Hanger, . VII. 



■_", Soil, a clayey Loam 

 (malm), of aver- 

 age depth. All 

 three Hangers 

 are gentle slopes 

 facing N. and 

 N.E. 



Copse. 



Crop of good growth. The stand- 

 ards are mostly of oak, varying 

 from about 3 feet ( Bush y Copse) 

 to 5 feet in girth ; well devel- 

 oped in Bushy Copse, but with 

 rather branching crowns in 

 Island Copse. 



The coppice forms good under- 

 wood, stocking the ground 

 fairly well, except in Duck 

 Row, where blanks are num- 

 erous. It consists chiefly of 

 ash and hazel, with a good 

 deal of alder and birch. 



Crop well grown, with sparse 

 standards of oak and ash from 

 about 3 to 4 feet in girth, of 

 rather branching development. 

 Coppice of hazel, with ash, 

 birch, and alder, and a little 

 chestnut (in A only). Stock 

 of coppice generally good, with 

 but few blanks. 



