238 TRANSACTIONS OF ROYAL SCOTTISH ARBORKTLTl'RAL SOCIETY . 



Name of Copse 



or 



Plantation. 



Sotkrington Lane 

 Side, 



Oakhaiiger Pond, 



Sandy Lane 



Plantation. 



XI. 



Claypit Copse, XII. 



Oak wood Row, 



XII. 



Soil and Situation. 



Soil as in IX. e. 



Method of 

 Treatment. 



Description of Timber Crop. 



Copse. 



As in IX. e ; but coppice poor, 

 and standards of oak, ash. 

 beech, yew, and chestnut, 

 large and numerous. Some 

 of the oak girth 7 to 8 feet 

 (largest 8 feet), and one large 

 chestnut girths 9 feet 5 inches 

 at breast height. 



A deep, moist, light Indefinite : This wood has hitherto remained 

 sandy loam to arbori- untouched, except by planting 



sand , surrounding c ul tural . 

 Oakhanger Pond 



and on islands. 

 Situation shel- 

 tered. 



untouched, except by planting 

 in 1881 and 1882 a few Scots 

 pine, larch, and Corsican pine. 

 The crop consists mostly of 

 old willows and birch, fring- 

 ing the pond and growing 

 along its edges, and with oak 

 on mounds round the outer 

 edges. These oaks girth from 

 about 4 to 6 feet, but do not 

 form good trees. Many of the 

 willows are large and of fan- 

 tastic shapes, while the birch 

 are of younger growth, having 

 also been planted on the islands 

 in 1881 and 1882. 



A pure white sand. High : Scots pine, planted about 1870, 

 as in III. D. Forest, i which are healthy enough, 



though their growth has not 

 been rapid. 



'■J Gault clay, stiff and 

 moist ; level, with 

 depressions here 

 and there, for- 

 merly used as 

 clay pits. 



'opse. Standards of oak with ash, both 

 girthing up to about 2h feet. 

 The}" are of fair growth, the 

 crowns not being too branch- 

 ing. The coppice consists 

 mostly of ash and hazel. It 

 is fairly well stocked, except 

 in the old pit-holes. 



A clay soil, on a 

 gentle slope with 

 S. aspect. 



Copse. Standards of oak up to about 

 6 to 7 feet in girth, and with 

 large branching crowns, form- 

 ing big, over-mature timber oi 

 interior marketable quality. 

 Underwood, hazel, with a few 

 oak seedlings sparsely scattered 

 over the area, and with many 

 blanks, chiefly overgrown with 

 blackberries and similar weeds. 



