The Tulip Tree. 



though it would, perhap?, occupy a twentieth part of the 

 ground of the coppice, it would he attended witli gain, 

 even if it occupied a fifth or a sixth part ; for the trees 

 would cover the road with their branches, and they might 

 stand closer on the edge of the road, than generally through- 

 out the coppice. During the ten years, or thereabouts, 

 and every successive ten years between the cuttings of the 

 coppice, a good produce of rough grass might be cut in 

 the road, yielding not so much profit as so much of the 

 coppice land to be sure, but yielding something at any rate, 

 while the advantage of such roads for the purposes of sport- 

 ing would be too obvious to need a particular description. 

 While the coppice stuff remained low, here and there a bit 

 of the road might be ploughed up and sowed with grain, 

 particularly with buck wheat, which the hares and rabbits 

 do not touch, for the entertainment of the pheasants ; a 

 thing by no means to be left out of our consideration, since 

 pheasants there will be, and men there will be who delight 

 in the preserving of pheasants. To be sure, the poachers 

 would be aware of these resorts, as well as the owners of 

 the coppice ; but they are aware of all the resorts already : 

 and besides, pheasants are by them destroyed in the night, 

 and they do not roost in the roads. 



534. To return to the Tulip Trees : they are not apt to 

 throw out stout side-shoots, unless raised from layers ; and 

 in the woods of America they have clear trunks, without 

 any pruning at all ; hut it is better to cut off the lower 

 side-shoots than to suffer them to die off; and therefore 

 that should be done in the manner directed for the Beech, 

 in the latter part of paragraph 149. 



535. The Tultp Tree ought, like other deciduous trees, 

 to be cut down in the winter, when it is fit for timber ; and 



