194 WOOB5 AND COPSES. [Jfltf* 



ceding, as to require any very marked alteration. 

 We have already noticed, that a thorough fum- 

 rner-fallow is the mod defirable method of prepa- 

 ration ; but that the mode to be followed muft 

 vary according to the nature of the foil, and other 

 circumftances. 



In the view, however, of rearing the mixed 

 copfe from feeds, a much more particular atten- 

 tion is requifite ; and efpecially in regard to the 

 raifing of thofe kinds which have very fmall feeds, 

 as the Birch and the Mountain-Am. Summer- 

 .fallow is certainly very improperly withheld where 

 thefe, or even the larger feeds, are to be fown,. 

 In cafes, however, where this is impracticable, the 

 pits (hould be dug in May, and, after eight months, 

 they may now again be ftirred ; and by the fpring 

 months, they may receive a preparative (Hiring, 

 finally to fit them for the reception of the feeds. 



Here, however, we beg leave to notice, that we 

 only admit of mixed copfes, either fown or plant- 

 ed, as matters of ornament. We have already 

 given our decided preference to the massing fyf- 

 tem, for reafons before ailigned. Indeed, we 

 judge it prepofterous, to attempt to force any one 

 fort of plant from its own foil, into the foil adapted 

 for another. For example : In many inftances 

 where copfes are to be raifed, there is a great va- 

 riety in the nature of the foil : ' Here, perhaps, we 

 have twenty or thirty falls of moffy earth, and 



withal 



