the furface fhould be kept clean hoed, and the potatoes earthed up, from time to time.

In autumn, after the potatoes are taken up, the foil ought to be drawn towards the roots of the plants, leaving channels between them to carry off the winter's rains. The enfuing fpring, the plants must be looked over, and fuch as have failed fhould be replaced with fresh ftrong fets.

AFTER this, little more will be neceffary than keeping down the taller weeds: if, however, in the course of three or four years, the plants do not gain entire poffeffion of the foil, by overcoming the weeds and graffinefs, they must be cut down to the stub, the interfpaces dug, the rubbish of the furface turned in, and the roots of the plants freed from incumbrances, with the hoe: A fecond crop of potatoes may be taken, and the former treatment repeated,

THUS far as to the Coppice: we will conclude this fection with fome obfervations on what is termed the OZIER BED; kept for the particular purpofe of the BASKET MAKER,,

NOTWITHSTANDING the Ozier is ufually planted near water, we have good reafon to believe it affects a found, if not a dry foil. The places it

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moft delights in are drained moors, and the banks of large rivers, both of which are peculiarly dry fituations: it has no diflike, however, to being flooded occafionally, but feems to be invigorated by fuch irrigation: therefore, the fand banks, which we frequently fee thrown up by the fides of rivers, and which fometimes lie for half a century before they become profitable, are peculiarly eligible to be converted into Qzier grounds.

THE method of planting an Ozier ground is this: The foil being laid perfectly dry, and its furface made thoroughly clean, cuttings, of the fecond or third year's growth, and about twelve inches long, are planted in drills, about two feet and a half afunder, in the month of March. The cuttings ought to be thruft feven or eight inches deep, leaving four or five inches of head above ground,

THE intervals fhould be kept ftirred with a fmall plow; or, the first year, a crop of potatoes may be taken; the drills, in either cafe, muft be kept perfectly clean with the hand hoe; and, at the approach of winter, the intervals fhould be fplit, and the mold thrown to the roots of the young plants, in order to lay them dry and warm, during

winter.

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In fpring, it will be well to trim off the first year's fhoots (though not neceffary), and replace the plants which have failed, with fresh cuttings,

THE fecond fummer, the intervals must be kept ftirred, the drills hoed, and the plants earthed up, as before, against winter.

THE enfuing fpring, the ftools must again be cleared; although the twigs, as yet, will be of little value. But the third cutting they will produce marketable ware, and will increase, in quantity and value, until the profits arifing from them will be almost incredible. In fituations which the Ozier affects, and in countries where the twigs are in demand, Ozier grounds have been known to pay an annual rent of ten pounds an acre! Under ordinary circumstances, they will, if properly managed, pay four or five,

IN Yorkshire, the "wands" are fold by the bundle; but in Glocefterfhire, where Ozier grounds abound, upon the banks of the Severn, the grounds are let, under lease, to basket makers, who keep up the fences, and take upon themselves the entire management, during the term of the leafe.

SECTION

SECTION THE FOURTH.

WOODY WASTES.

NO inconfiderable part of the face of this country, taken collectively, is disfigured by lands bearing this defcription*; the remedy, however, is eafy, and the difgrace may foon be removed,

IF the foil and fituation be favorable to grafs or arable produce, grub up the bushes, and clear away the rubbish; but, on the contrary, if the land, either from its own nature, or from the proportion of woodinefs which has already got poffeffion of its furface, can be more profitably converted into Woodland, fill up the vacant spaces, in the following manner;

THE first business is to fence it round, and the next to cut down the underwood to the stub, and fet up the timber trees. If the vacancies be small, they ought to be trenched with the fpade; if large, they may be fallowed with the plow; or, in either

* See page 119.

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cafe, the plants may be put in, without any other preparation, than digging holes to receive them: however, with this kind of management, fuccefs can only be boped for, while under that it may be fecured.

THE fpecies of wood and the mode of propagation depend upon locality, and the fpecies of plantation required. If underwood be an object, the fmaller chafms may be filled up, by layering; for which purpose young fhoots ought to be left, when the brush wood is felled, for layers: if timber alone be the defired object, feedling plants may be put in, and acorns or other feeds dibbled in the interspaces: Whether the Wood, the Grove, or the Coppice, be intended, the large spaces ought to be filled up in that way; or feeds, only, may fown in drills, and treated as before directed; or they may be scattered in the random manner, and the feedlings kept clean by weeding and hand hoeing; or the foftering care may be left to nature alone: indeed, in this kind of way, Woods and Timber Groves may be propagated.

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A GENERAL REMARK ON THE PRACTICE OF PLANTING.

WE do not, however, mean to recommend to our readers, here, practices depending on chance,

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