1*38 ON DIFFERENT MODES OF DISPOSING OF 



security must be given to the satisfaction of the vendor, for such 

 payment before any part of the underwood will be allowed to be cut 

 or carried away. 



4. The underwood shall be cut in a workman-like manner, the 

 stems not to be cut lower than is usual for future growth, nor to be 

 split or broken off. All samplers or timber-like trees which are 

 marked, shall be carefully preserved ; and if any be cut or injured, 

 or any other damage be committed by the purchaser of the lot, his 

 workmen, or customers, such purchaser shall pay treble in value for 

 each sampler or timber-like tree cut or injured, and shall also pay 

 full compensation for any damage done. 



5. The whole of the underwood shall be cut before the 25th day 

 of March next; and the underwood cut to be cleared off by the 10th 

 day of April next. Any wood which may remain on the ground 

 after the day above named shall be forfeited to the vendor. 



6. The purchaser is to make use only of the usual roads, and to 

 make good all damage done or committed in cutting or taking the 

 wood away; and no dogs to be taken into the woods either by the 

 purchasers or their workmen; and where the boundaries are required, 

 the purchaser must make the hedge in a workman-like manner. 



7. If the purchaser neglect or fail to comply with these condi- 

 tions, the deposit-money shall be forfeited to the vendor, who shall 

 be at liberty to resell by public or private sale the lot or lots 

 bought by such purchaser; and any deficiency, and all expenses 

 which may be caused by such resale, shall be made good by the 

 purchaser in default or his sureties. 



Sales of Growing Timber. — I will now consider the system of 

 selling growing timber by auction as practised on many estates in 

 the south of England. Growing timber is generally sold in the 

 months of January and February; but if the sale consists exclusively 

 of oak, it may be deferred until March or even April. Ash, firs, 

 and all sorts of timber except oak, are sold as early in the winter 

 as possible, to afford the purchasers sufficient time to cut their trees 

 before the sap begins to circulate in spring. With oak the case is 

 different, as oak bark, though much cheaper now than formerly, is 

 still a consideration with timber merchants, who leave their oak 

 until the middle of April, when stripping begins. In regard to 

 stripping, I may mention that it is done more economically and 

 efficiently in the south than in many parts of Scotland. The whole 

 process is briefly this : — At the proper time to begin (which is ascer- 

 tained by a perceptible enlargement of the oak buds), the woodmen 



