5 2 APPENDIX. 



SECT. .5. An account of the management of .an Qalt ii'cod t 

 which had been for many years on the decline , prior to 

 the year 1 792, at -which period the following fcbemc 





wat .commenced. 



BETWEEN ninety and a hundred acres of {haggling 

 oak woods about ten years ago exhibited a miferable 

 picture, being by far the greater part fo far decayed, 

 that the bark could not be dripped off in furamer at 

 the ufual time of cutting down oak; fo that it was a 

 matter of indifference what feafon the trees were cut 

 down at, fince no profit of any account refulted from 

 the bark. 



There were various opinions and conjectures, pre- 

 vious to the cutting down; it was almort univerfally 

 agreed, that, fince the oak had given up, no new fpe- 

 cies would lucceed, the foil being fo dry and exhaufted, 

 and that it was better to let the oak continue in the 

 ikate it was, to linger out its exiftence. Thefe futile 

 advices were laid aftde, from the well known laws of 

 nature, as it is a fact, that requires but little demon- 

 it ration to prove, that every plant is capable of fearch- 

 ing for juices moft congenial to its own fupport. It is 

 a very weak argument to advance, that, becaufe the 

 oak declined, other plants (hould not fucceed ; the 

 former had abforbed all the nourifhmcnt from the 



foil, 



