X INTRODUCTORY VIEW. 



plantation, is pointed out ; and also, the evil 

 consequences proceeding from the rash per- 

 formance of that duty, whether in respect of 

 the injury done by injudicious pruning, or by 

 the bad effects of prevailing winds. 



I then proceed to treat of the manner of 

 thinning and pruning MIXED PLANTATIONS 

 under ten years old ; from ten to twenty years 

 old ; from twenty to forty years old ; of fifty 

 years old and upwards ; plantations of Scotch 

 jfr, of all ages ; and HEPGE-ROW TIMBER 

 which has been neglected or maltreated : 

 endeavouring to point out the most speedy 

 and effectual methods of RECLAIMING AND 



TURNING THEM TO PROFIT. 



The subject, in the seventh general divi- 

 sion, turns on the manner of cutting and 

 thinning natural woods and copses. Here are 

 set forth the methods of cutting in hags ; of 

 manufacturing the barks of oak and birch ; 

 of speedily REDUCING COPSES OF OAK INTO 

 TIMBER GROVES, for NAVAL and other pur- 

 poses ; of producing, in natural woods, re- 

 gular crops of underwood, at the same time 



