OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES. S89 



used on various occasions for which a number of 

 shoots may be trained from one stump, whose 

 fertile juices will shortly rear a healthy and nume- 

 rous offspring around it. Very particular atten- 

 tion, however, should be paid to regulate their 

 number, according to the size and vigour of the 

 stump. It would certainly be proper to leave 

 more of them at first than are intended to be re- 

 served for final use, in order to draw up the sap : 

 if too few are left, thev will be liable to burst, from 

 the superabundant flow of the juices from the old 

 stock : to prevent which inconvenience, they 

 should be cut away by degrees, always applying 

 the Composition as they are cut, and leaving the 

 finest stem to produce the new tree, which will in 

 time cover the old stump, and leave nothing but a 

 faint kind of cicatrix at the junction of the old 

 and new part of the tree. 



It is needless for me to insist on the great ad- 

 vantage which land-proprietors and farmers will 

 derive from this method of managing their woods 

 and coppice-grounds, wherever they may be. In 

 many counties of England, coppice or underwood 

 is an article in very great demand for charcoal, 

 common fuel, or the purposes of particular manu- 

 factories, as well as to furnish a variety of articles 

 for husbandry and domestic convenience. 



It would be equally unnecessary to enlarge on 

 what must be so evident to the most ordinary 

 understanding, the great national advantage which 



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