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vey,) 40,000 unenclosed oak, and 20,000 ash stools ; 

 the whole not worth at present L.300 sterling, nor 

 will they ever be worth much in their present un- 

 protected state ; were these thinned out for standing 

 timber trees, in such a manner as described in my 

 Forester's Guide, — say take away all the radical or 

 unthrifty shoots, and leave on them one, two, or not 

 exceeding three of the very best, healthiest and most 

 thriving, and those most likely to become trees, such 

 as were pointed out, or particularly described to the 

 forester as he went on ; and on such of the stools as 

 have comparatively no shoots from them, having 

 been eaten up by the sheep, &c, dress such properly 

 up for the growth before enclosing them, and a very 

 few years after being enclosed, will put them com- 

 pletely out of the reach of cattle, &c. If this is pro- 

 perly attended to, in the way and manner shown the 

 forester as I went along ; in twenty years after, these 

 very stools will be worth at least L.50,000 sterling ; 

 in from fifty to sixty years, worth L.150,000 sterling, 

 timber and bark ; observe, as the old stools or roots 

 are large, there will be three trees, on an average, 

 reared up to maturity as timber trees from every 

 stool ; besides, these trees will still be increasing in 

 size for two centuries to come, notwithstanding their 

 ornament and increase in value, as timber trees. Let 

 every unprejudiced person, the least acquainted with 

 that country, anticipate the infinite grandeur and 

 beauty such trees will add to the whole country, and 

 to the prosperity of the proprietor of these farms ; 

 nor do they take one inch of ground from the farms, 

 as by clearing away the rubbish, and confining the 

 stools into two or three shoots from them, there will 

 be the more grass. I suppose on these farms there 



