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thirty to forty feet in height, and will 

 meafure from twenty to thirty inches in cir- 

 cumference, in about forty years. 



It is obfervable, that when a wood is in- 

 tended to be fprung again for limber, the 

 entire ground is, or ought to be, ckared of 

 every tree great and fmall. Single trees, — 

 STANDAR.DS, — provincially, " wavers," — left 

 in a v/ood, under an idea of their being too 

 young and thriving to be taken down, fcldom 

 retain a luxuriancy of growth after the 

 neighbouring trees are removed j bur, by 

 their drip and Ihade, do certain injury to 

 the young faplings rihng round them. 



It is alfo obfervable, that there is a great 

 inequality of fuccefs in raifing timber in this 

 way : while in fome inftances there will be 

 a tenfold fufnciency of llioots to be trained ; 

 in others too great vacancies will be found. 

 This is probably owing to management, or 

 to the AGE of the timbers taken down. A 

 youH^ wood may be fprung afrcfh with a de- 

 gree of certainty. But, perhaps^ there is dan- 

 ger as well as difficulty in regenerating an 

 eld one. 



2. Selling. It has already been intimated, 

 that the large feedling-timbers which for- 

 merly 



