The Tulip Tree. 



better shelter, and is more easily kept clean from weeds, 

 and is better in every respect for this purpose. By the 

 time that the coppice had been cut down the third time, 

 the Tulip Trees, having been kept carefully pruned of their 

 shoots, would have clear stems of a considerable length, 

 and would cause so much shade and drip, as to render the 

 coppice of little value for the future; but now there would 

 be a icood amply to compensate you for the loss of the 

 coppice. 



532. I must mention here, that which I omitted in for- 

 mer articles, where I spoke of this method of planting a 

 mixture of timber trees and underwoods ; and that is, that 

 you must, when you have cut your coppice, carry off the 

 produce on the backs of men, and not suffer wagons or 

 carts to go into the plantation for that purpose. Carters 

 have no more mercy on young trees than they have on flint 

 stones, and never appear to think them of more value. I 

 have seen, in the clearing of a coppice, thickly set with 

 young Oaks that had come up from the acorn, more than 

 a hundred of those Oaks trampled down by the horses, run 

 over by the wheels, broken off, or torn in their bark, during 

 the loading and carrying off of one single load of worth- 

 less brush-wood, of so little value as for the bundles of 

 it to be sold at five or six shillings the hundred ; and this is 

 the general practice throughout the whole country, as far 

 as my observation has gone. The produce of the coppice 

 is put up in heaps here and there, and the wagon, which in 

 this case is one of the most complete instruments of destruc- 

 tion that ever was invented by man, goes about, first in one 

 direction, then in another, destroying as it goes, and leaving 

 behind it, where there is a thick plant of young Oaks and 

 Ashes, ten times as much mischief as the produce of its 

 loads brings good to the owner of the coppices. Even 



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