CHAf. I.
SILVA.
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CHAPTER I.
Of COPPICES .
SyLVA CiEDUA is (as Varro defines it,) as well Coppice to cut forfuel, as for use of timber; and we have already showed how it is to beraised, both by sowing and planting. I shall only here add, that if, intheir first designation, they be so laid out as to grow for several falls, theywill both prove more profitable and more delightful: More profitablebecause of their annual succefsion ; and more pleasant, because therewill always remain some of them standing ; and if they be so cast out, asthat you leave straight and even intervals of eighteen or twenty feet forgrafs, between spring-wood and spring-wood, securely fenced andpreserved, the pastures will lie both warm, and prove of exceedingdelight to the owner. These spaces are likewise useful, and necefsaryfor cartway, to fetch out the wood at every fall. There is not a morenoble and worthy husbandry than is this, which rejects no sort of groundnor situation, (though facing the east is esteemed best for both timberand underwood,) as we have abundantly showed; since even the mostboggy places may be so drained and cast, as to yield their increase byplanting the drier sorts upon the ridges and banks which you cast up,where they will thrive exceedingly : And then TV illow, Sallow, Alder,Poplar, Sycamore, Black Cherry , &c. will shoot tolerably well on thelower and more uliginous j with this caution, that for the first two years
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