button to main menu  Description of Sixty Studies, pp.36-37
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Coppice wood is usually cut down in this country every fourteen or sixteen years, for the uses of coaling, fuel, hoop making, bobbin turning, and for various husbandry and other purposes; and it is, in a general way, performed indiscriminately - some owners, however, suffer oaks, and sometimes ash trees, to remain, but it is mostly in such a way that the new shoots can derive little advantage from them as shelter.
Property is not injured but rather enhanced in value by suffering out of coppice wood a considerable proportion of trees to remain, particularly if they are such as are grown from plants, are beautiful, sound at the roots, and otherwise healthy; oak, ash, and birch, are the best adapted to answer this purpose; and they are trees which will always be admired as long as there is any feeling for that diversity of character so bountifully distributed
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over the face of nature. - Large trees shelter small ones, and greatly promote their growth, if lying on the east and north; and the business of the owner, previous to the application of the axe, will be at once to consult his immediate and future interest by the preservation of such trees as will, by a proper attention to their species and combination, render to the place charms unknown before, and advantage to the future growth of the wood after the business of felling has been performed.
In the smaller work, notice has been taken of several estates bordering Derwent Water, and of certain benefits to be derived from a reduction of the wood on those estates, and the writer will avail himself of the present opportunity to speak of the way in which he conceives the lower grounds at Rydal might be improved. Should his advice be attended to, he trusts that the result will eventually
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