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trees, except such as are dying along the east and north 

 outsides, to the breadth of twenty yards or thereby, 

 and cut the whole of the rest over, and convert into 

 an oak natural coppice wood, that is, fill up the 

 ground with oak where there is none, to be cut 

 every twenty-four years ; in this way, it will pay an 

 annual rent of L.7, 10s. per acre for time coming, 

 without any expense of plants or planting, and the 

 belts on the outsides will always keep up its look as 

 a plantation for shelter, &c. 



Is^o. LXII. 



Strip along the Road Side. 



From about a chain length south of the approach 

 road, north to the old wood, this strip consists chiefly 

 of old Scotch firs, which in many places want thin- 

 ning ; but from the height of the trees, and their ne- 

 glected state, there would be the greatest danger in 

 doing so, that is to say, thinning, as it would be a 

 mean of breaking down many of them with the cut- 

 tings and make great gaps in it, which, in some in- 

 stances, is already the case ; the most effectual me- 

 thod would be to cut the whole down, widen and 

 plant it up anew ; but this would make a great blank 

 for a long time. I am therefore of opinion it should 

 stand as long as it will stand, taking always away the 

 dead trees, and continue to fill up the present and all 

 other blanks as they become naked, with spruce firs, 

 oak, Spanish chesnut, ash, and plane trees ; plant at 

 eight feet, plant from plant, thin out at six feet high, 

 to sixteen feet, at twenty feet high, to thirty-two 



