WOODS AND COPSES. 513 



WOODS AND COPSES. 



CONTINUE the work of pruning young Coppice 

 wood, and alfo all wavers left upon the ftools, as 

 recommended laft and preceding months, 



In cafes where you have cropped the fpaces of 

 your laft, cr preceding fpring-fown patches, with 

 potatoes, they mould now be taken up, and the 

 f'urface be cleaned of all haulm : the ground 

 fhould then be ploughed up, to lye during the 

 winter. The land among young Coppice patches 

 of one or two years old, fhould be gathered by the 

 plough, leaving the furrov/s next to the patches, 

 and within ten inches or a foot of them, on each 

 fide, which will leave twenty inches or two feet 

 of folid ground around them: On the two or three 

 laft furrows, the plough muft be drawn by one 

 horfe, otherwife the plants might be trod down. 



But after the trees have rifen to the height G 

 two feet, ploughing among them muft be dif- 

 continued altogether ; for even although the fur- 

 rows next to the patches were made with one 

 :korfe in the plough, the trees would, in many 

 K k cafes, 



