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No. XX. 



* Wood. 



This wood has got a good thinning, and the stools 

 of the ash being well dressed up, they are for the 

 most part sending out most vigorous and strong shoots 

 from the old stools, and in a few years a great many 

 better trees from the old stools will be reared up, 

 than the old ones ; the wood is now well enclosed. 

 But it is like locking the stable door after the horse 

 is stolen ; the sheep and cattle having got in be- 

 fore, have injured a great many of the young growths, 

 they will however come on, being now protect- 

 ed. A good many of the dwarfish ash trees may yet 

 be cut over and allowed to stool, as some of them in 

 their present state never will be trees. This should 

 be done with a good many, indeed with all that are 

 not likely to be proper trees otherwise ; where wet, 

 drain, plant up the blanks with oaks, and fill the 

 whole ground up with underwood, as shelter for 

 game, &c. 



No. XXI. 

 Wood. 



This wood has been skilfully and most effectually 

 drained, which is the life of the standing trees, of the 

 plants already in, as it will be of those to be put in ; 

 a few of the scraggy ash trees and of the alders, may 

 still be taken out, rear up from their stools, particu- 



