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old, and eight feet high, in rows, four feet 

 asunder, and two feet distance in the row. 

 After four years I cut them down within five 

 or six inches of the ground. Having more 

 than I wanted, in seven years I sold half for 

 pollards and hoops for 40s. In six years I 

 cut them again, and sold them for 50s. In 

 six years after this I cut them again, and sold 

 them at the same price. There remained 

 now twenty-three, intended to stand for tim- 

 ber ; but I was obliged to sell them at twenty- 

 three years' growth for 7s. a tree. Thus would 

 an acre of indifferent ground, properly situ- 

 ated for sale, yield in twenty-three years 

 115/. 10s., without any other expense than 

 digging the ground for the first five or six 

 years, and cutting the coppice." Observe, 

 that no price is mentioned for the first cut- 

 ting, which he used himself; and that he 

 found he should have had at least one-third 

 more for the price of the last cutting. He 

 also found that he had planted too thick, and 

 that he might have had more wood if the 

 rows had been six feet asunder, and the sets 

 three feet distant in the row. 



" We have heard of a gentleman," says the 

 author of Practical Economy, " whose lands 

 were more extensive than fertile, whose prac- 

 tice it was to plant 1500 trees, on the birth 



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