WOODS AND COPSES. [Jan. 



WOODS AND COPSES. 



ON PREPARING THE GROUND FOR AN OAK. 

 WOOD. 



DIFFERENT methods may be purfued in the 

 eftablilhing of an Oak Wood ; one or other of 

 which may be reforted to., according to circum- 

 flances. We fhall ftate them feparatety. 



If the ground be fo level, and fo free from 

 ftones or rocks, as that it can be ploughed, it is 

 the beft method to truft the preparation of the 

 land to the plough. In this cafe, however, we 

 would by no means advife the rearing of an Oak 

 wood on a poor moorifh foil. Such land fhould 

 be referved to be planted with trees better fulted 

 to its nature. The Oak requires, and deferyes a 

 good foil ; and if an attempt be made to rear an 

 oak wood in a very bad foil, fuch an attempt 

 will inevitably fail. The upper foil fhould be at 

 lead fix inches in depth, and a tolerably good 

 mould ; fuch as would, if properly cultivated, 

 produce a fair crop of grain. There can be no 

 objection to a cool, deep fand ; the oak being 



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