The Tclfp Tree. 



where there are no youug trees to destroy, the carting does 

 incalculable injury to the underwood itself. To be sure, it 

 ought to be done, and it generally is done before the stems 

 of the underwood begin to throw out their new shoots. 

 Xevertheless, the wheels of the wagon and the feet of the 

 horses, do very great injury to those stems. They wound 

 and bruise them ; they batter them about in such a way as 

 frequently to cause them to die, and as always to weaken 

 the growth of their shoots. The wagon, in a coppice of 

 eight or ten acres, will make, perhaps, not less than fifty, 

 and, more likely, a hundred turnings or half- turnings, if a 

 wheel come in contact with a stem in such turn, it half 

 grubs it up; or, at the very least, it destroys half its powers 

 of future production; but where there are young trees 

 left standing in the coppice intended to become timber, the 

 havoc is absolutely frightful. Very careful people have the 

 produce of theh* coppices backed out. as it is called in the 

 country ; but few persons calculate the loss of the future, 

 when a trifling saving is presented to them for the present. 



533. But, if a coppice be large, and of a square, or nearly 

 of a square form, it is very tedious and expensive to carry 

 all its produce to the outsides on the back; that produce 

 being very bulky and heavy. Therefore, if the coppice or 

 plantation be large, and not very long and narrow, so as to 

 make the distance to the outsides of it short, there ought 

 to be a road made in the coppice ; and but one road, by any 

 means. This road should wind about with gentle turnings; 

 turnings so gentle as to leave the carter no possible excuse 

 for running over the young trees, or over the stems of the 

 coppice wood. This road might so wind about, according 

 to the shape or extent of the coppice, as to leave no where 

 any very great distance for the stutF to be carried on backs. 

 The road might come out and end where it began; and 



