DENDROLOGIA 



THE THIRD BOOK 



CHAPTER I. 



Of Coppices. 



i . Sy/va caedua is (as Varro defines it) as well copp'ce 

 to cut for fuel as for use of timber ; and we have 

 already shew'd how it is to be rais'd, both by sowing 

 and planting. I shall only here add, that if in their 

 first designation, they be so laid out, as to grow for 

 several falls ; they will both prove more profitable, 

 and more delightful : More profitable, because of their 

 annual succession ; and more pleasant, because there 

 will always remain some of them standing ; and if 

 they be so cast out, as that you leave straight and 

 even intervals, of eighteen or twenty foot for grass, 

 between spring-wood and spring-wood, securely fenc'd 

 and preserved ; the pastures will lie both warm, and 

 prove of exceeding delight to the owner. These 

 spaces are likewise useful and necessary for cartway, 

 to fetch out the wood at every fall. There is not a 

 more noble and worthy husbandry, than is this, which 

 rejects no sort of ground nor situation, (tho' facing 

 the east, is esteem'd best for both timber and under- 

 wood) as we have abundantly shew'd ; since even the 

 most boggy places, may so be drein'd and cast, as to 



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