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up trees to a great age, or full maturity; but I am 

 of opinion, that it is well adapted, both as to soil and 

 situation, for a natural oak coppice wood ; and as 

 every foot of the ground in the field will carry oaks 

 for that purpose, and from its locality to a bark mar- 

 ket, if properly attended to, it will pay at the rate of 

 L.5 sterling per acre of annual rent, allowing the 

 oak bark to keep its present reduced price. The 

 method I would advise for planting, &c. is, after hav- 

 ing cut an open drain in the middle, from south- 

 west to north-east, (say two feet six inches wide at 

 the top, one foot at the bottom, and two feet deep,) 

 then run a plough through every furrow, as it now 

 stands in ridges, to the depth of seven inches at 

 least, leaving them open ; plant the hollow shelter- 

 ed places with oaks alone, at a distance of six feet, 

 plant from plant, and on the level part of the field, 

 oaks at eight feet, putting in a plant of larch fir betwixt 

 each ; these larches to be allowed to remain only for 

 six, or not exceeding seven years, in order, not so 

 much to shelter the oaks, as to make and enrich the 

 soil for them afterwards, and then the larches to be 

 all cut out; the whole of the trees of every de- 

 scription, on the west side, within the field, to be cut 

 down, and the stools of the oak and ash properly- 

 dressed up for the growth ; — the stools of the birch 

 to be extirpated. The ash, although of bad quality 

 just now, the natural shoots will then be quite a dif- 

 ferent quality, and nearly equally profitable as oak 

 in a natural coppice wood ; besides, the oak and 

 ash on this part of the field will fill up a great 

 part of the ground, without being at the expense 

 of a single plant, by layering from the young shoots, 

 a plan though new, (and opposed by the nur» 



