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Crops- 



Uses of the 

 wood, 



Other uses. 



Nurseries. 



PLANTATIONS OF ASH TREBE. 



ting. From the stubs thus left in the ground the regular 

 crops of ash are produced, and are fit for falling every ten 

 years. 



The ash plants are usually fallen betwixt Christmas and 

 March, and the wood sorted into poles of three denomina- 

 tions ; viz. best, second, and third hop-poles; beside 

 stakes, edders, and bavins. The bavins will amply pay 

 the expense of falling. The best hop-poles are worth, at 

 present, forty shillings per hundred, the second quality 

 twenty-five shillings, and the third ten shillings. Stakes 

 and edders are about two shillings and sixpence the 

 hundred. 



When the plants remain uncut for twelve or fourteen 

 years, the ash plants are fit for ,other purposes, such as 

 wood proper for wheelrights, and broad hoops for coopers, 

 beside hop-poles, &c. as before-mentioned. 



When the plants have been two years in the nursery beds, 

 and ready for planting out, they are worth from six 

 shillings to ten shillings the hundred according to their 

 quality. 



The ash plants I raised from 1763 to 1778, were 442484 

 I raised and sold from 1778 to 1807 - 156320 



I have now ready for sale - - - 126096 



Total of plants I have raised 724900 



Cheapness of 

 planting. 



I will engage, provided the land is prepared by my direc- 

 tions, to plant ash for one third less money than by any 

 other mode of cultivation yet known ; and for all plants 

 that die in such a case, provided they are in new plan- 

 tations, I will give plapts gratis to replace them the suc- 

 eeeding year. 



X. Chemical 



