WALNUTTREE, CHERRYTREE, PLUMTREE, Box, HOLLY, YEW, and a variety of woods for inlaying and cabinets. In some country places, a confiderable quantity of ENGLISH OAK is worked up into tables, chairs, drawers, and bedsteads; but, in London, BEECH is almoft the only English wood made ufe of, at prefent, by the cabinet and chair makers.

THE carvers' favorite wood is LIME, for picture and glass frames; DEAL, for coarfer articles.

Coopers ;-OAK (and fome CHESNUT), for large cafks and veffels: ASH, for dairy utenfils, butter firkins, flour barrels, &c.. OAK, for well buckets and water pails, and, in fome places, for milk pails, and other dairy veffels: BEECH, for foap firkins, &c.

Locksmiths, in Birmingham and Wolverhampton, work up a confiderable quantity of OAK, for Lockftocks: chiefly the butts of trees.

Turners-principally BEECH for large ware, if BEECH is to be had; if not, SYCAMORE, or other clean-grained wood: Box, HOLLY, &c. for smaller utenfils.

Mathematical Inftrument Makers;-MAHOGANY, Box, HOLLY.

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Trunkmakers;-DEAL.

Packing Cafes ;-alfo DEAL.

Coffins ;-OAK, ELM, DEAL.

AND, finally, the laftmakers, who work up no inconfiderable quantity of wood, ufe BEECH for lafts; ALDER and BIRCH for heels, patten-woods, &c.

We do not deliver the foregoing sketch as a perfectly correct account of the application of woods, in this country: the attempt is new, and that which is new is difficult. We have not omitted to confult with profeffional men upon the fubject; and we believe it to be fufficiently accurate for the purpose of the planter. If we have committed any material error, we ask to be fet right. We do not wish to defçend to minutiæ : it would be of little ufe to the planter, to be told what toys and toothpicks are made from: it is of much more importance to him to know, that, of ENGLISH WOODS, the OAK is moft in demand, perhaps three to one,-perhaps in a much greater proportion; that the ASH, the ELM, the BEECH, and the Box, follow next; and that the CHESNUT, the WALNUT, and the PRUNUS and PINUS tribes, are principally valuable, as substitutes for OAK and FOREIGN TIMBER,

SECTION THE SECOND.

SITUATION AND SOIL.

IN the choice of timber trees, however, SITUATIONS and SOILS must ever be confulted. The Oak, in fhallow barren foils, and in bleak expofed fituations, cannot be raised with profit, as a timber tree; while the Larch, by out-growing its strength, fickens in deep rich foils.

IT is a fortunate circumftance for this country, that the two trees which are most likely to furnish its navy with an internal fupply of timber, should delight in foils and fituations of oppofite natures; and every judicious planter will endeavour to affign to each its natural station.

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DIVISION THE THIRD.

HEDGES AND HEDGEROW TIMBER.

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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

HE raising of LIVE HEDGES and HEDGEROW TIMBER Conftitutes no inconfiderable part of the business of planting. The value of good Hedges is known to every hufbandman; and notwithstanding the complaints against Hedgerow Timber, as being liable to be knotty, &c. the quality of the timber itself is not queftioned its faultinefs arifes, wholly, from an improper treat→ ment of the tree, and not from the fituation of its growth. Indeed, we are clear in our opinion, that, under proper management, no fituation whatever is better adapted to the valuable purpose of raifing SHIP TIMBER, than Hedges: The roots have free range in the adjoining inclofures, and the top is exposed to the exercife of the winds, with a fuffis cient space to throw out lufty arms, and form, at a proper

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proper height, a spreading head. Thus, quickness of growth, with ftrength and CROOKEDNESS of Timber, are at once obtained.

We are well aware of the injury refulting from woody Hedgerows to arable inclofures; but every man experienced in rural matters must be convinced, that it is not well trained Timber trees, but high Hedges, and low Pollards, which are the bane of corn fields. Thefe, forming a high and impervious barrier, preclude the air and exercise, so effential to the vegetable, as well as the animal creation in Norfolk, lands thus encumbered are, with great ftrength and propriety of expreffion, faid to be wood-bound. Befides, Pollards and lowfpreading trees are certain deftruction to the Hedge wood which grows under them.

NEITHER of thefe evils, however, refult from tall Timber Oaks, and a Hedge kept down to four or five feet high: a circulation of air is, in this cafe, rather promoted than retarded; and it is well known, that a pruned Hedge will thrive perfectly well under tall-ftemmed trees, Oaks more especially. We will therefore venture to recommend, for arable inclosures, Hedges pruned down to four or five feet high, with Oak timbers of fifteen to twentyfivé feet stem.

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