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PLANTING AT PROPER DISTANCES. 



This depends upon circumstances and upon 

 tlie object intended. If a wood of forest-oak 

 be raised from acorns, the distances from 

 eacb other in the Crown forests of North- 

 amptonshire, and in the woods and fox-covers 

 in Lincolnshire, such as " Linwood Warren," 

 Sir Arthur Aston's, or the Earl of Scarbo- 

 rough's extensive woods, a few miles from 

 Tickhill, in Yorkshire, is about from twenty- 

 four to thirty-three feet apart, and the rest of 

 the land occupied as coppice-wood, of which 

 latter each plant I should place not less than 

 five feet apart from the other, in the choice 

 of which regard must be had to the kind of 

 timber which wiU suit your own market, and 



