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S I L V A. 



DENDHOLOGIA. 

 BOOK THE THIRD. 



CHAPTER I. 



Of COPPICES. 



Sylva CjiLDUA is (as Varro defines it) as well coppice to cut for CHAP, r, 

 fuel, as for use of timber ; and we have already shewed how it is to be 

 raised, both by sowing and planting. I shall only here add, that if, in 

 their first designation, they be so laid out as to grow for several falls, they 

 will both prove more profitable and more delightful : more profitable 

 because of their annual succession ; and more pleasant, because there 

 will always remain some of them standing ; and if they be so cast out, as 

 that you leave straight and even intervals of eighteen or twenty feet for 

 grass, between spring-wood and spring-wood, securely fenced and 

 preserved, the pastures will lie both warm, and prove of exceeding 

 delight to the owner. These spaces are likewise useful, and necessary 

 for cart-way, to fetch out the wood at every fall. There is not a more 

 noble and worthy husbandry than is this, which rejects no sort of ground 

 nor situation, (though facing the east is esteemed best for both timber 

 and under-wood,) as we have abundantly shewed ; since even the most 

 boggy places may be so drained and cast, as to yield their increase by 

 planting the drier sorts upon the ridges and banks which you cast up, 

 where they will thrive exceedingly : and then Willow, Sallow, Alder, 

 Poplar, Sycamore, Black Cherry, &c. will shoot tolerably well on the 

 lower and more uliginous ; with this caution, that for the first two years 



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