Feb.'] 



MIXED COPSES, &C, 



PLANTING MIXED COPSES. 



The feafon is now arrived when the moft of 

 this work may probably be performed. Anxiety, 

 however, mould never be allowed to drive us to 

 plant when the ground is in an unfit ftate. It is 

 a more rational and fafer plan to defcend to the 

 loweft grounds in the planting as they begin to 

 dry. It only requires a fmall addition of labour; 

 which, put in competition with the fuccefs of the 

 plants, is nothing. But, under this article for 

 January^ we have already given directions in this 

 refpect, as well as in regard to the moft proper 

 kinds, the manner of planting, and introduction 

 of the nurfes ; to which, to prevent repetition, we 

 beg leave to refer the reader. 



PRUNING WOODS AND COPSES. 



As in Foreft plantations, the pruning of Copfes 

 may ftill be carried on, excepting copfes of Birch, 

 which, as before flated, muft not be wounded at 

 fo late a period of the feafon. The pruning of 

 coppice wood cannot be considered as differing fo 

 much from the pruning of ordinary plantations, 

 as to require any diftinct directions. We there- 

 fore refer the reader to the article Pruning Forest 

 Trees for laft month. 



S THINNING 



