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repaired; and in spring, all the walks, roads, avenues, and 

 other openings, cleared from wood or rubbish, which may 

 have been unavoidably laid on them during the fall of tim- 

 ber, in order that now they may be used as walks or drives 

 of pleasure. 



2. Timber and copse must be provided, not only for the 

 use of the residence, and in some cases the tenantry of the 

 estate; but as wood includes all the distant plantations, the 

 management of that to be sold comes equally within the pro- 

 vince of the forester. He must be able to ascertain the proper 

 age for felling, the measurement, the value, whether of wood 

 or bark, whether of particular trees, or parts of a tree, or of 

 timber and bark in general. 



3. He must form a nursery of young trees, and for this purpose 

 must collect their seeds at the proper seasons. When a new plan- 

 tation is to be formed, or an old one repaired, he can have re- 

 course to this nursery, which ought to contain chiefly trees of 

 such sorts as are much wanted, and these of many different sizes; 

 so as when trees are required to plant in the fields or hedgerows 

 they may be supplied of such a size as will be entirely out of the 

 reach of the cattle. He must, in connection with this, attend 

 to the preservation of implements, roads, &c. though the num- 

 ber of these under his care are comparatively few. A forester 



