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Show ‘ A Diftourfe of Foreft-Treés. Chap.XXVIID Chap.XXVIII, A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. and the kinds of Wood, and emergent wes do fo much govern 5 yet Copjes are fometimes of a competent ftature after eight or zine years from the Acorn, and fo every eight orten years fucceflively, will rife better and better : But thishad need bein extraordinary CHAP. XXVIII. ground, otherwife you may do well to allow them tzelve or Tif teen to fitthem for the 4x5 but thofe of tenty years {tanding are better, and far advance the price; efpecially if Oke, and Afh, and Cheffnut be the chieffurniture. Some of our old Clergy {pringWoods heretofore have been let reft til] twenty five or Of Copjes. thirty years, and have prov'd highly worth the attendance; 1 Ulva Cedua is(as Varro definesit)as well Copféto cut for fuel as S for ufe ofZimbersand we have already fhew’d how it isto be rais'd, both by Sowing and Planting. {hall onely here add, that if in theirfirft Defignation, they befo laid out, as to.grow for feveral Falls ; they will both prove more profitable, and moft delightful > Molt profitable, becaufe of their annual Succeffion 5 and moft pleafant, becaufe there will alwayes remain fome of them ftanding 5 andif,they be focaft out, asthat you leave ftrait, and even intervals ofeighteen, ontwenty. foot for graf, between Springwood and Spring-wood, {ecurely Fexc’d, and preferv'd'; the Paffures will lye both warm, and prove of exceeding delight to the Omxer. Thele spaces likewife ufefuland neceflary for Cart-may , to fetch out the ood atevery Fal, Thergis not a more noble, and worthy Husbandry, thanis this, which rejects no fort of Ground, as we have abundantly thew’d; fince eventhe moft boggy places, may fo be drein’d andcaft, asto-yield its, increafe, by. Planting the dryer forts upon the Ridges and banks which you caft up, where they willthrive exceedingly : And then Willow,Sallow, Alder, Poplar, Sycomor, &c, will {hoot tollerably well onthe lower and more Vliginous 5 with this caution, that for the firf? two years, they be keptdiligently weeded and clenfed, whichis as neceflaryas fencing and guarding from Catte/, Our ordinary Copfés are chiefly upoa Alafel, oy the Birch ; but if amongft the other kinds ftore of AA, Chefnut, and Sallow (at leaft one in four) were fprinkled in the Planting, the profit would foon difcover a difference , and well recompence theinduftry, Others advife usto Plant fhoots of Sal low , Willow, Alder, and of all the fwift growing Trees, being of leven years growth, /loping off both the ends towardsthe ground, tothe length of a Billet, and burying them reafonable depth in the earth, This will caufethem to putforth feven or eight branches, eachof which will becomea Treein a {hort time,efpecially, if the foil be moift, The neereft diftance for thele Plantations ought never to be lefle than five foot at firft, fince every felling renders themwider forthe benefit of the Timber, eyen to thirtyand Sourty foot in five orfix fellings. 2. Thoughit be almoft impoffible for us to prefcribe at what Age it were beft Husbandry to fell Coppfes (as we at leaft call beft Husbandry) that is, for moft,and greateft gain; fince the Mercats, and J for by shat time even a Seminary of Acorns will render a-confide- ble advance, as 1 have already exemplified in the Northampton feireLady. And if Copfes were fo divided asthat everyyear there might be fome fell’d, it were a continual, anda prefent Profit : Seventeen years growth affords.a tolerable Fel/; fuppofing the Copfe of feventeen Acres, one Acre might beyearlyfel/d for ever 5 andfo more, according to proportion ; but the feldom Fal/,yields the more Timber. 3. As to what Numbers and Scantlings you are to leave on every Acre, the Statutes are our general guides, at leaft the /egal, It isa very ordinary Copfe whichwill not afford three or four Férfts,that is, Befis ; fourteen Seconds, twelve Thirds , eight Wavers, Gc, ace cording to which proportions the fizes of young Trees in Copfing are to {ucceed one another. By the Statute of 35 Hen. 8. in Copfes or Under woods fell’d at twenty four years growth, there were to be icft twelve Standils, or fiores of Oak , upon each Acre; in de- fed of fo many Oaks, the fame number of Elms, Ajh, A/p, or Beech; and they tobe fuchas are of likely Trees for Tzber, and offuch as have been {par’d at fome formerFe//izg, unlefie there were none, in whichcafe they are to bethen left, and fo to continue without Felling till they are tex inch fquare within a yard of ground. Copjes above this growth fel'd, to leave twelve great Oaks 5 orin detedt of them other Tiwber-trees (as above) and fo tobe left for twenty years longer, and tobe enclofed feven years. 4. Infumme, you are to{pare as many likely Zrees for Timber as with difcretion youcan, And as tothe felling ( beginning at one fide, that the Carts mayenter without detriment to what youleave ftanding ) the Vsder-wovd maybe cut from Fanxary at the lateft 5 till mid- A¢arch, or Aprils or from mid: September, ull neer the end of November; fo asall be avoided by Asidfummer at the lateft, and then fewced ( where the Rows and brufh lye longer unbound er made up, you endanger the lofle of a fecond Spring ) andnot to {tay fo longas ufually theyarea clearing, that the young, and the Seedlings may fuffer the leaft interruption : And if the Winter previous to yourfelling Copfes, you preferve them well trom Cattel, it will recompenfe yourcare. 5. It isadvis'd nottocut off the bromfe- wood of Oaks in Copfes, but to fuffer it to fall off, as where Trees ftand very clofe it ufually does:I do not well comprehend whyyetit fhould es long. . When |