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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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