296 SUCCESSION CROPS OF WOOD. 



the stools of the varieties now under consideration, 

 immediately after the trees are cut down, as is 

 there recommended. They need not receive any 

 dressing before the shoots make their appearance, 

 care however being taken, in felling the trees, not to 

 peel off the bark of the stools below the surface of 

 the ground. The shoots that arise from them are 

 to be treated precisely as is directed for those of the 

 oak, being thinned out gradually, and pruned as 

 necessity may require. 



I have known shoots springing up from the old 

 root of an ash, elm or plane, grow four or five feet 

 in one season. This progress is greater than is 

 usually made by plants of any of these kinds 

 brought from the nursery, for several years after 

 they are placed in their new situation ; I must, 

 therefore, repeat, that it is a fact of a very singular 

 nature, that scarce any attempt should have ever 

 been made to renew hard-wood plantations in the 

 manner now described. 



When plantations of Scots firs are cut down, if 

 sheep and cattle be excluded, considerable numbers 

 of seedling plants of the Scots fir often make their 

 appearance, from cones which had been shed in for- 

 mer years. These seedlings are found to succeed 

 much better among fresh roots, than such as are tran- 



