402 WOODS AND COPSES* 



wherever they are cut off, the ftools produce a 

 greater profusion of new moots, which both need- 

 lefsly throws away the flrength of the ftool, and 

 robs thofe {hoots intended for the crop, of a part 

 of their nourimment. 



Having fele&ed the proper fhoots to remain on 

 the ftools, and removed, by the chifel, all re- 

 dundant ones, nothing farther is necefiary to be 

 done for them, till the proper feafon for pruning 

 them arrives in autumn, when they mud be trim- 

 med, as directed for foreft plantations of their age 

 and fize. 



Stools which have been thus treated two years 

 ago, fhould now be cleared of all young growths 

 which have fmce rifen up. Indeed, it were bet- 

 ter, both for the ftools and wavers, that the fu- 

 perfluous young growths were annually removed. 



Stools which have flood ftill two years longer, 

 and which have been treated as above directed, 

 inuft now be freed from fome of thofe faplings 

 which were left at the firft thinning. In cafes 

 where five were left, two may be removed ; and 

 thefe, of courfe, the worft. The three which are 

 left mould be chofen to ftand as equally dif- 

 pofed around the ftool as poffible. Thofe which 

 were left with four upon them, fhould now be 

 freed from two of the worft ; and the two left 

 fhould be as nearly oppofite to each other on the 

 (tool as poflible. After this thinning, the plants 



