404 WOODS AND COPSES. 



By their twentieth year, another third part may 

 be removed, which will allow the remaining ftands 

 to be at the diftance of nine or ten feet apart ; 

 and by their twenty-fifth year, perhaps, they may 

 require to be thinned out to twenty or twenty-five 

 feet diftance ; and, five years thence, the remain- 

 ing (lands may require to be thinned out to thirty 

 feet diftance : Which diftance will probably an- 

 fwer till they arrive at their fortieth year, when 

 they may be thinned out to about forty feet dif- 

 tance from one another. 



The ftools produced by thefe intermediate thin- 

 nings, and which have been managed as directed 

 above, will by this time have produced a plenti- 

 ful crop of young faplings for fupplying the places 

 of fuch trees as it may be neceffary from time to 

 time to remove : and thus, by a fimple method 

 and moderate care, may copies be converted not 

 only Into woods, but it may be faid into everlaft- 

 ing woods. * 



TAKING 



* Although we look forward for a great length of time, 

 during which the roots of the oak will supply nourishment 

 to the saplings at intermediate cuttings, and produce these 

 to good timber trees, the time will doubtless arrive when 

 these, through age, will become rigid and incapable of 

 performing their functions. Every tree with which we are 

 yet acquainted has evidently its periods of infancy, youth., 

 maturity, decay and death. 



