90 PLANTING. 



not \infrequently been the cause of serious inconvenience, it may be of use", 



therefore, to enumerate these names and synonyma. 



llutt-cnd. That portion of the stem of a tree which is situated nearest to 

 the r 



llu*h, in gardening and planting 1 , applies exclusively to every perennial 



(mostly with several stems from its root), which in its 



Mom attains to a timber size, e.g. having a stem girfi/ig 



six inches. \Ve understand currant-bush, gooseberry-bush, rose-bush, 



holly-bush, laurel -bush, &c., but never oak, elm, or ash-bush, c. The 



limits between a shrub or bush and a tree cannot be more precisely defined 



than by the girt or diameter of the stem, under ordinary circumstances of 



culture. ; taming to, or exceeding the above dimensions. 



ix. I Ion 3, bound with two withers or weefs, chiefly used 



for the o\en. 



Hinders. Long pliant shoots of hazel, ash, &c., which have pliancy 



and length enough for binding down newly-plashed hedges, making close 



- round rabbit-warrens, sheep-folds, hurdles, and binding faggots. 



The stem, trunk, or body of a tree, after it has attained to upwards 



:t inches in diameter, or to that si/e which constitutes timber. Vide 



Tim 



Cum 1 , Smart-hoops. Shoots of the hazel, six feet in length; they are 

 cleft for hoops, and are used by sugar-refiners for their earthen pots ; also 

 Imon kits, small tubs, and other purposes of the cooper. 



//. Properly a shoot one or two years old, or a cutting of a 

 branch of that age for the purpose of grafting. Used sometimes to denote 

 the shoots of a coppice stool. (Worlidge.) 



Cooprrs ware. The lower ends of ash poles cut from six to eighteen 

 feet long, according to the length of the shoot. They are cleft for the use 

 of the cooper, waggon-tilts, &c. 



'Is. The same as kifa-faggofy, which see. 

 /i'or/fTv. The same as binders, which see. 



. The long branches of the hop and fence poles. The 

 -stakes, coopers' ware, &c., bound with one wither or icef. 

 Vide 



h'iln-ft/xsnis. The lowest product of a plantation, being made of the 

 lirushiugs of the wood previous to the commencement of cutting the copse, 

 !c of brambles, dead-wood in the stubs, and refuse of plants 

 on the BU lie ground ; used for burning lime, bricks, exc. 



dirt, ^/rf/t, of the hole Is sometimes understood as the circumference 



of the stem, but more generally as the fourth part of the circumference or 



side of the square of the stem, (iilpin (in * Forest Scenery/ vol. i. p. 59 



and p. Ill) uses it in the former sense, when he says 'at Wimly, near 



Hitchin Priory, Herts, a chestnut-tree, in 1789, girted somewhat more 



than fourteen sards.' lie could not mean the tree to square forty-two 



feet in the side. (I rose also appears to use the term girt in the same sense, 



'.ing of the limb of a chestnut-tree at Forlworth, in (i!louces.ter- 



1 ne limb me -a^ured twenty-eight feet and a half in girt, fi\ 



i.' r/ii/'i*/>/n'r<f/ Ac< -nimf, p. 17G. Of the same tree he 



d tilts-oil,- feet at six feet from the ground.' \IK] 



irom an inscription placed under an etching of it, 



Mating that 'the \ards in rirn/nijirrmr,' which suf- 



in which tin- word ' girt' is understood by the 



rd girt is doubtless derived from girth, tiuuxi, to gird or 



notwithstanding its general acceptation is to denote the 



'Mils of the circumference, or side of the stem when squared. 



