2CO "WOODS AND COPSES. , \J(tn* 



may become a ftill more valuable tree than it is 

 yet efteemed. 



As to the fizcs of plants to be ufed for form- 

 ing the mixed copfe, they mould not be more 

 than eighteen inches high at mofl ; but from 

 twelve to eighteen inches is the bed fize. The 

 plants mould not be drawn up too flender in the 

 nurfery, but mould be stout plants ; the more a- 

 bundant in fibres their roots are, the better will 

 the plants be found to fucceed. The method of 

 planting has already been defcribed in the article 

 Forest Planting for this month j which fee. 



PRUNING OF COPPICE WOODS. 



The obfervations already made refpecling the 

 Pruning of Foreft Plantations from infancy on- 

 ward, will equally apply to that of copfe wood. 

 Here, alfo, every thing muft give way to the 

 principal crop. Attention muft alfo be paid to 

 prevent whipping, and to preferve a free circu- 

 lation of air at all times, which can only be ac- 

 complifhed by a timeous pruning and thinning. 



THINNING OF COPPICE WOODS. 



As advifed in the Thinning of Foreft Planta- 

 tions, it is proper here, alfo, to begin with the 

 removal of the nurfes. By the time indeed that 



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