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never been either dressed up for the growth, or cared 

 for, yet they are fine. The whole of this little en- 

 closure should be cut over this season, and the stools 

 of oak carefully dressed up for growth. The whole 

 of the birch should also be cut over, barked, and the 

 timber cut into barrel-staves, and the birch growths 

 extirpated, and the whole ground filled up with oak, 

 converting it into oak coppice, for which both the 

 soil and situation is admirably adapted. The oak 

 barking should be commenced immediately, and fi- 

 nished before the birch, as it will do to bark, so late 

 as the month of August. The timber of the oak is 

 remarkably suitable lor making into cart and chaise 

 wheel spokes. For the method of barking the oak, 

 birch, and making the timber into spokes and staves, 

 see it briefly described in my Forester's Guide. As 

 this wood is of full age for cutting, it should be at- 

 tended to without delay. The profit to be derived 

 from natural oak coppice cut every twenty-four 

 years, may be beautifully illustrated by this wood, 

 I suppose it to be thirty years, or not exceeding that 

 age ; and there are many stools in it worth 15s. wood 

 and bark, which the same ground could have reared 

 up to the same age, say at eight feet, tree from tree, 

 or stool from stool, which are 800 odds on each acre, 

 supposing the ground to be covered with oak alone, 

 at 15s. each stool, is L.600 for the crop of thirty 

 years growth, which is L.20 of annual rent for every 

 acre, as the refuse of the wood and additional stools 

 will be sufficient to pay the expense of manufactur- 

 ing ; but to bring it down to cuttings at twenty-four 

 years, and suppose only the one half, allowing all the 

 rest to go for the interest and the annual rental, &c.. 



