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the purposes to which timber in its youth is 

 applicable in your own neighbourhood. 



In Staffordshire it would be " crate-wood;" 

 in Surrey and many other counties the char- 

 coal-burner, and in Norfolk and Suffolk, and 

 other localities in various parts of England, 

 the hurdle-maker and the hoop-maker and 

 hop-grower would be your customers. But 

 with us the strongest limbs and poles would 

 be sold as post-wood for the collieries, while 

 the rest, of lesser girth and dimensions, 

 would find ready sale to the bobbin turner, 

 the picking-peg turner, and the chemical 

 liquid manufacturer ; and for these uses, and 

 for which we have an unlimited demand, I 

 should recommend sycamore, Spanish chest- 

 nut, and mountain-ash, which might be raised 

 from keys, nuts, and berries, in the manner 

 hereafter described. You might then cut your 

 coppice-wood in successive years, as it reached 

 the proper age and size for your own market, 

 as is done in other localities for theirs. 



