92 on the value and uses of the larch tree. Scpt. 18. 
fir also; but it is evident that the natural branches 
would be firmer and sehaget for that purpose that 
the others. 
Small railing, cages for poultry, ben coops, &c. 
The small points cut off from the spires in mak- 
ing hay rakes &c. need not be lost. These, if cut 
to an equal length, between three and four feet, and 
stuck into the ground at regular distances, having 
their points received above into a sawed lath of thé 
same wood, pierced with holes of a proper size for 
receiving them, would make a neat and ‘cheap small 
railing, which would be found extremely convenient 
on innumerable occasions. 
Or, they might be easily worked on the same 
plan, into cages for poultry, or into the spars of 
hen coops, which would be neat, cheap, and durable. 
Under-draining damp ground 
The small twigs and lefser branches, would also, 
on account of their incorruptibility, furnifh the best 
material that ever yet has been discovered, for fil- 
ling up.open drains in damp grounds ; and thus 
would prove an effectual means of promoting one 
of the greatest improvements that ever can take 
place i in many parts of Britain. At present there are 
innumerable extensive tracts of damp weeping clays, 
which are in a great measure uselefs to the farmer 
because of the difficulty of finding cheap materials 
for filling opendrains; and which, ifsufficiently drained, 
would be at once rendered of mere than four times 
their present value. Other kinds of brufh wood, even 
where these can be had, are of such a perifhable na- 
ture, as to answer this purpose very imperfectly. 
