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over the copfe, which is very trifling, and which the owner ought, 

 in all events, to do himfclf carefully for his own fake : Let them 

 be cut, flanting, with lharp inftruments, leaving all the wounds 

 fmooth and clean, to prevent the wet from lodging in the flocks, 

 from whence it might communicate to the roots, and conta- 

 minate the whole plant, and which a common purchafer of 

 the copfe would probably pay little attention to. The befl: fea- 

 fon for this work, is the month of February, before the fap be- 

 gin to rife. I have not mentioned any price for the firft cutting, 

 liaving ufed them myfelf : Thefe were planted at eight feet high, 

 and had flood four years from planting, fo that, from the low- 

 eft calculation, they muft have been worth more than pay the 

 whole expence of labour : To which I muft add, that, after felling 

 the lafl cutting of my copfe, I was informed by an honeft man, 

 a good judge of the value of that commodity, that I had been 

 grofsly deceived by the purchafer, and that I fhould have recei- 

 ved one-third part at leaft more money than I did. 



It is necefTary to obferve, for the benefit of fuch as incline 

 to follow this practice, which is furely worth attending to, as it 

 might foon become a very profitable improvement, that, after 

 the fecond cutting, I found I had planted my copfe too thick, 

 and that, had they been at greater diflances, I fhould have reap'd 

 confiderably more advantage from them : I therefore now, from 

 experience, advife them to be planted in rows, fix feet afunder, 

 ajid three feet in the row. 



