. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 86 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part I. 534. The cuttings take place periodically with respect to small trees and fire-wood, s
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. 86 HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part I. 534. The cuttings take place periodically with respect to small trees and fire-wood, so as to secure an annual produce ; but reserves are always left to become, eventually, large and valuable timber. 535. The cutting of the taillis or coppice, chiefly used as fire-wood, takes place every eleventh year ; that of the high and grosser coppice, every twenty-fifth year; the felling of the half-grown forest trees, every sixtieth year; and that of the full-grown forest trees, once in a hundred years. 536. In the management of coppices, it is considered essential to preserve the roots from stagnant water ; the trenches originally formed for that purpose are from time to time cleared out; and the sediment and manure from the falling leaves, which have accumulated in them, are carefully spread upon the ridge, or rounded set, which the wood occupies. A second branch of regular attention is to remove all brambles and briars; a third, to replace the old and fading stocks by new plantations; a fourth, to thin the stems with regularity and care. 537. The sorts of trees are birch, oak, service, ash, maple, elm, beech, poplar, aspen, wild pine, Wey- mouth pine, plane, lime, larch, Spanish chestnut, and alder. A variety of pine, called the Plnus mari- tima, but not the plant of that name which is known on the coast of Italy and Greece, has been tried on the sea-coast, and found to resist the sea-breeze. It is said extensive plantations have been made of this tree on the coast of
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