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have become pretty large plants, to protect them ; ob- 

 it iving lirictlv, however, not to lufter the Firs to drop 

 over them ; and betwixt the Cedars and the Firs I plant- 

 ed Oaks, that when the Firs were cut away, the Oak, 

 >vhich is a long lafting tree, might give fuitable fhelter 

 to the Cedar. 



OJ Coppices. 



THUS have I gone through moft of the trees that 

 are planted either for plcafure or profit. I (hall 

 now conclude the whole by a few obfervations on the 

 railing of Coppices, or fmall woods, a work the more 

 receflary, as it is in the power of gentlemen of but very 

 moderate fortunes, vvhilft the culture of large woods 

 requires both extent of ground and expence in manage- 

 ment. 



Whenever you intend to make fmall vi^oods of coppi- 

 ces, you are firft to inclofe your ground fufficiently, fo 

 that no cattle may get in to browze upon your young 

 plants, or amongft them. If there is any natural wood 

 in this inclofed ground, you are not to take it intirely 

 away; nor Junipers, fcantiing Whins, or other low 

 growing Shrubs ; but fow the feed of your trees near 

 them, in fuch a manner as that the under-wood may not 

 choak them when your young plants come up. If the 

 grafs is rank, you muft pare the furface of the earth at a 

 little diilance round the pits wherein you fow your feed, 

 that the grafs may not tvvifl: round the young fhoots of 

 your plants which would choak them. I would always 

 advife, rather to fov/ than plant your woods ; for thpfe 

 trees which are fown, and remain untouched, will in 

 twenty years far outftrip any tree you can plant. Thin 

 your plants when they come to a tolerable height, mo- 

 derately, but not all at once, for that would let in too 

 much cold air to your plants ; but from delicacy on this 

 point, you muft not crowd your plants too much; 

 otherwife, for want of a due circulation of air, they 

 wilt run like may-poles, and turn out good for no- 

 thing. Take away all forked (hooters, by taking off 



their 



