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CHAPTER V. 



THE MANAGEMENT OF OAK COPPICE-WOOD. CAUSE OF DISEASE 



AMONG LARCH FIR PLANTATIONS. HOW TO FIND THE VALUE OF 



YOUNG PLANTATIONS AND OF FULL-GROWN TIMBER TREES. A 



FEW PRACTICAL REMARKS RELATIVE TO THE MANNER IN AVHICH 

 WOOD OUGHT TO BE PREPARED FOR PUBLIC SALE. 



SECTION I. THE MANAGEMENT OF OAK COPPICE. 



Plantations of the description termed oak cop- 

 pice, are now so common in Scotland, that there 

 are few landed estates of any considerable extent 

 upon which there is not less or more of them. In 

 the West Highland counties there are many ex- 

 tensive plantations of oak coppice ; and within the 

 last thirty years many fine old oak forests have 

 been cut down in the midland counties which also 

 are, for the greater part, now converted into plan- 

 tations of tliis description — the same being trained 

 up from the young shoots which have arisen from 

 the stocks of the old trees which were cut down. 

 And seeing that this description of wood crop is 

 upon the increase upon the estates of landed pro- 

 prietors, I consider that it may not be out of the 

 way for me here briefly to detail the best modes 



