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priety and advantage be added to it, as the land for 

 the most part is adapted for no other purpose, and 

 never can be brought to pay one shilling, for twenty 

 that it will do in planting. Let us consider a planta- 

 tion to be made and reared here solely for profit, and 

 to insure a regular annual return of profit ; it would 

 be to plant the whole, or part of it on a proper prin- 

 ciple for a natural oak coppice (and I may observe, 

 by the way, that the coldest and most barren places 

 of these mountains, will carry oak coppice) and cut 

 over (after being brought to a proper system) every 

 twenty-four years ; dividing it into twenty-four re- 

 gular yearly cuttings, it will produce at the rate of 

 seven pounds sterling per acre of annual rent ; and 

 that too, for any length of time without expense of 

 keeping ; but to keep the fences good, which can be 

 very easily done in this place, where the stones are 

 got for the lifting up ; were this plan to be adopted, 

 the method for planting and converting it into a na- 

 tural oak coppice, is to plant the whole after being 

 enclosed with oaks at eight feet distant, plant from 

 plant, with a nurse tree of larch or spruce fir between 

 each, which should be cut away when the oaks get 

 the height of four feet, and at the age of fifteen years, 

 or thereabouts, the whole of the oaks should be cut ; 

 however it may be proper to observe, that the oak 

 and bark will not pay so much the first cutting, as 

 there is but one stem from the plant in place of three 

 or four, that can be reared from the stocks in after 

 cuttings. (See this fully explained in my Forester's 

 Guide.) After the first cutting at fifteen years, they 

 should be cut every twenty-four years thereafter. 

 Observe, that an oak natural coppice requires no 

 shelter after the first cutting, however exposed the 



