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from one stump, whose fertile juices will shortly rear a healthy 

 and numerous offsprin^j around it. Very particular attention, 

 however, should be paid to regulate their number, according to 

 the size and vigour of the stump. It would certainly be proper 

 to leave more of them at first than are intended to be reserved 

 for iinal use, in order to draw up the sap ; if too few are left 

 they will be liable to burst, from the superabundant flow of the 

 juices from the old stock : To prevent which inconvenience, 

 they should be cut away by degrees, always applying the com- 

 position as they are cut, and leaving the finest stem to produce 

 the new tree, which will, in time, cover the old stump, and 

 leave nothing but a faint kind of cicatrix at the junction of the 

 old and new part of the tree. 



It is needless for me to insist on the great advantages which 

 land-proprietors and farmers will derive from this method of 

 managing their woods and coppice grounds, wherever they may 

 be. In many counties of England, coppice, or underwood, is 

 an article in very great demand for charcoal, common fuel, or 

 the purposes of particular manufactories, as well as to furnish 

 a variety of articles for husbandry and domestic convenience. 



It would be equally unnecessary to enlarge on what must 

 be so evident to the most ordinary understanding, the great 

 national advantage which maybe derived from the use of thig 

 composition, by preserving and increasing the native supplies 

 of our country for the support of that navy which is to protect 

 it. Nor need I urge to the man of taste, and the lover of land- 

 scape beauty, what a useful htlp it may afford to the delightful 

 modern art of ornamental horticulture. 



