230 THE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



pie methods of cutting, with the view of 

 speedily rearing a close grove, and with the 

 double view of cutting for timber and for un- 

 derwood. In this Section, I shall suppose the 

 object of cutting is for fuel, and the bark ; 

 and that the whole is to be cut over, with- 

 out any Stands being left. 



The hag being marked off, and the sea- 

 son for cutting, which for Oak, is from the 

 iirst of May to midsummer, being arrived ; 

 commence the operation by cutting clean 

 over, close by the surface, such stems as is- 

 sue singly from the ground. Those that 

 spring from old stools which have been re- 

 peatedly cut, should be taken close off with 

 the saw ; observing to slope, and afterwards 

 to smooth the face of the wound in such a 

 manner as to prevent water from lodging. 

 (See treatment of wounds, &c. Chap. IV. 

 Sect. X.) But certainly nothing can be 

 more erroneous than the avaricious practice 

 of those who, for the sake of its bark, peel 

 the whole stool down to the surface, and 

 leave it to rot, to the evident injury of the 

 succeeding crop of underwood. 



