OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES. 



30$ 



from the latter will, in eight or ten years, attain to a fize 

 which the fingle plant will hardly acquire in twice that 

 period. There are alfo many uieful purpofes of hufbandry, 

 as hop-poles, and other poles ufed on various occafions, for 

 which a number of (hoots may be trained from one flump, 

 whofe fertile juices will fhortly rear a healthy and numerous 

 offspring around it. Very particular attention, however, 

 ihould be paid to regulate their number, according to the 

 fize and vigour of the ftump. It would certainly be proper 

 to leave more of them at firft than are intended to be referved 

 for final ufe, in order to draw up the fap : if too few are left, 

 they will be liable to burft, from the fuperabundant flow of 

 the juices from the old flock i to prevent which incon- 

 venience, they fhould be cut away by degrees, always ap- 

 plying the Compofition as they are cut, and leaving the fiheft 

 Item to produce the new tree, which will, in time, cover the 

 old ftump, and leave nothing but a faint kind of cicatrix at 

 the junction of the old and new part of the tree. 



It is needlefs for me to infift on the great advantages which 

 land-proprietors and farmers will derive from this method of 

 managing their woods and coppice grounds, wherever they 

 may be. In many counties of England, coppice, or under- 

 wood, is an article in very great demand for charcoal, com- 

 mon fuel, or the purpofes of particular manufactories, as well 

 as to furniih a variety of articles for hufbandry and domeftic 

 convenience. 



It would be equally unnecefiary to enlarge on what muft be 

 fo evident to the mo ft ordinary underftanding, the great 

 national advantage which may be derived from the ufe of this 

 Compofition, by preferving and increafmg the native fupplica. 



