March,'} WOODS AND COPSES. 301 



WOODS AND COPSES, 



IN the preceding month, dire&ions were given 

 for planting mixed Copfes. Whatever more of fuch 

 work remains to be done, it ought not now to be 

 delayed, unlefs on account of the too damp ftate 

 of the land. The drought of this month is ge- 

 nerally very intenfe : Intervals of a few days may 

 therefore be expecled, when the damp of the 

 wetted of the pits will be entirely dried up. Thefe 

 favourable times (hould be embraced with avidity, 

 for the purpofes of planting. 



In the laft month we noticed, that the operation 

 of cutting Coppice- wood of Birch, &c. fhould go 

 on. If there is (till any work of this kind to per- 

 form, it mould forthwith be done. 



SOWING COPSES AND WOODS. 



In the event of fowing copfes, either of Oak, 

 or of a mixture of kinds, in grafs land which hag 

 barely been prepared by pitting, like ordinary 

 plantation, it would be proper to defer the work 



i till 



