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SECT. III. Defending the young Plants, 78.
SECT. IV. Training young Hedgerows, 79.
Defending, 80.
Cleaning, 80.
Pruning, 82.
With Side Brush, 84.
With Naked Stems, 84.
SECT. V. Management of grown Hedges, 85.
I. Management of the Hedge, 85.
Age of Cutting, 86.
Season of Cutting, 87.
Methods of Cutting, 88.
Filling up Vacancies, go.
Pruning and Weeding newly Cut Hedges, 91.
A Hedge Hook, for this Purpose 91.
Treatment of old Rough Hedges, 93.
Replanting Worn out Hedges, 95.
II. Management of Hedgerow Timber, 96.
Training Planted Timberlings, 96.
Taking down Hedge Timber, 98.
Management of Hedge Pollards, 100.
Treatment of Neglected Hedge Timber, 101.
Setting them out at proper Distances, 102.
PRUNING them fully treated of, 102.
DIVISION THE FOURTH:
WOODLANDS OR USEFUL
PLANTATIONS.
Introductory Remarks, 109.
Distinction between Useful and Ornamental
Plantations, 109.
On the present State of Ship Timber, in
England, 110.
The Quantity of Woodland cleared by a Se-
venty-four Gun Ship, 111.
The private Advantages of Planting enume-
rated, 112.
Precautions requisite to profitable Planting,
115.
Enumeration of the most profitable Timber-
Trees, and Underwoods, 118.
Species of Woodlands enumerated, 119.
SECT. I. Woods; or a Mixture of Timber and
Underwood, 120.
Peculiarly adapted to Ship Timber, 120.
On different Methods of raising Woods, 121.
Laying out Lands for Woods, 124.
Fencing them, 126.
On raising Woods from Seeds, 127.
Preparing Grounds culturable with the com-
mon Plow, 128.
Time of Sowing, 129.
Method of Sowing in Drills, 129.
The Species of Underwoods to be adapted to
the given Markets, 130.
Species of Timber, the Oak, 130.
The first Year's Care of the young Plants, 131.
The second Year's Treatment, 132.
The third and succeeding Years, 132.
Filling up Vacancies.
Collecting supernumerary Plants.
Nursing them, in the Intervals.
The first Cutting, 133.
The second Fall, 135.
Succeeding Falls, 135.
Training the Timberlings, 136.
Raising Woods on steep Hangs, culturable
with the Turnwrest Plow, 136.
Raising them on unculturable Steeps, 137.
Farther Information collected on this Subject,
138.
In the Southern Counties.
In the Midland Counties,
In the Highlands of Scotland.
On clearing the Intervals of Seedling Woods,
139.
ON TRAINING young Timber OAKS for SHIP-
BUILDING, amply treated of, 139.
ON TRAINING LARCHES, for SHIP TIMBER,
143.
SECT. II. Timber Groves, 145:
Remarks on the Scotch Fir, 145.
Species of Grove Timber, 146.
Proper Soils and Situations, 147.
Methods of raising Grove Timber, 148.
Method of 'Training, 149.
On thinning Grove Timbers, 150.
On pruning them, 151.
On miscellaneous Groves, 151.
On raising Groves of Oak, 152.
MR. SPEECHLEY'S Paper, on raising Groves,
on Sherwood Forest,
Proposed Improvement of his Method, 172.
Sowing Tree Seeds with Corn, 173.
Depositing them in clean Sward, 174.
A Caution in seminating the Oak, 174.
Sow in a plentiful Year.
On Grove Planting, in Scotland, 175.
Its Progress, 175.
The Species of Plantation, 176.
The Species of Plants, 176.
The Method of Planting, 176.
Observations on the LARCH, 177.
Its superiority in Water Work, 178.
Also in Ground Work, 178.
Abundant on the Estate of Athol, 178.
And throughout the Highlands, 179.
Proposals for propagating it on the Heaths of
the Southern Counties of England, 179.
And TRAINING it for SHIP TIMBER, 179.
Instances of its rapid Growth, 180.
Recommended to the Notice of Men of
Property, 181.
SECT. III. Coppice Woods, 181.
The Modern Coppices of Kent, 181.
Cultivate in Rows,
Clean the Intervals,
Cover them with Hopbines.
Raising Coppices from Seed, 182.
Regulating the Plants,
Thinning them.
Cultivating the Ozier as a Coppice Wood, 183.
Note on Willow Pollards, 183.
Cultivating the Ozier for Basket Work,--on
OZIER BEDS, 185.
SECT. IV. Wooded Wastes, 188.
General Remarks, 188.
Clear them for the Purpose of Husbandry.
Or, Fill them up for Woodlands.
The Method.
A GENERAL REMARK ON THE PRACTICE OF
PLANTING, 189.
A HINT RESPECTING THE MANAGER OF
PLANTATIONS, 190.