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rably attached to, and to be sold with the lands on 

 which they grow, and which I would reckon on equi- 

 table principles, are as follows. 



1st, Take every park, field, den, valley, hill, or 

 farm, on which there may be woods, plantations, or 

 single timber trees, stating each place distinctly by 

 its proper name, known on the estate, or which is in 

 the plan, accurately noting down each in a book. 



2d, Natural Woods or Coppices. — Take the 

 number of acres, the average number of stools or 

 growths on each acre ; if there is a difference of the 

 ages, take each by itself, taking the crop in the way 

 and manner as is particularly described in the Fo- 

 rester's Guide, for valuing natural coppice woods ; 

 by this means the value of the crop, as it is at the time 

 and age the valuation takes place, stands on the 

 ground, may be accurately ascertained ; but some- 

 thing more is necessary to be added to the value of 

 the crop at present on the ground ; for instance, an 

 acre of natural wood, will, when completely full, 

 carry 800 stools or roots, and each of these stools 

 will produce, on an average, three stems, (see 

 this fully explained in Forester's Guide) each of 

 these stools is worth three plants, even the very 

 year they are cut over, as they grow three times 

 faster than from the plant, and are in no risk of 

 failure, and requiring to be filled up from time to 

 time, as plants are, so that one acre of natural cut 

 wood, although newly cut over, is worth, and of 

 more value than three acres of new made planting, 

 admitting that both wood and planting is enclosed. 

 Now granting that the produce of each acre of na- 

 tural oak coppice at twenty years, wood and bark is 

 worth L.150, and this will be found to be the case 

 where the ground is full with 800 stools each acre 



