.0 COPSES. 



WOODS AND COPSES, 



CONTINUE the barking of Oak wood, as point, 

 cd out laft month. See that the bark be well 

 dried, and properly flacked up and thatched. 



Such copfes as were fown in pits among grafs 

 lands are now to be carefully weeded, as directed 

 for fuch in Forest Plantations for this month ; 

 which fee. 



Fields of patches which were fown either with 

 acorns or other tree feeds, are now to be careful- 

 ly weeded and hoed, as circumftances will admit. 

 Great care is neceflary, especially in regard to 

 fmall feeds, as thofe of Birch. And fuch of thefe 

 as are cropped with vegetables, muit be carefully 

 weeded arid hoed. Nothing, we repeat, is of 

 more importance to all forts of crops, than early 

 cleaning. 



Thofe which had their patches thinned out in 

 the laft, or preceding fpring months, will be great- 

 ly bettered by being hoed between the remaining 

 plants, not merely to deftroy the weeds, but to 

 loofen and renew ths furface. It has elfewherc 



