102 METHODS 'OF TREATMENT 



per atedyand at -the fifth* cut, -when the trees are eighty years 

 old, they are reduced to 5, and these must all be oak, the ash 

 and larch being now finally removed. These 5 oaks will be 

 left till they are 100 years old and will then be cleared, or, 

 if desired, one or two of them can be left to 120 or 140 years. 

 Another 400 plants are put in after every cut, and each lot is 

 treated as above. Thus, after one complete rotation of one 

 hundred years of the overwood, there will be on an acre 

 immediately before cutting: 



5 oaks 100 years old. 

 5 oak and 10 ash, &c., 80 years old. 

 15 oak and 15 ash, &c.,6o 

 25 oak and 25 ash, &c., 40 



300 to 400 tellers or young standards of the age of the 

 coppice, 20 years. 



When the felling is made the following are removed : 



5 oaks 100 years old. 

 10 ash, &c. 80 ,, 



10 oak and 5 ash, &c. 60 



10 oak and TO ash, &c. 40 



All except 50 trees 20 ,, 



All the coppice 20 ,, 



and the correct number of each age is left to grow another 

 rotation. 



The oak, ash, and other broad-leaved trees cut at the age 

 of twenty years, of which there will be about 300 per acre, will 

 coppice and form an improved underwood in the future, and 

 in the course of time the hazel will be got rid of. 



As the standards will all be in small even- aged groups they 

 will form better timber than has been usually obtained from 

 such woods. Larch does very well over a dense coppice and 

 often escapes disease when grown in this way, as may be seen 

 in the Crown woods at Tintern. Groups of any other species 

 can be introduced as desired. 



