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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60464	England's improvement reviv'd digested into six books / by Captain John Smith.	Smith, John, fl. 1633-1673.	1670 (1670)	Wing S4092; ESTC R22597	189,167	284

of greater grown Timber than these Woods will afford at so few years But we shall have occasion to speak of them hereafter and therefore forbear further mentioning of them in this place There remaineth to be felled or cut down besides or more then those used about hoops 32621613 Shoots or young Trees Out of them may be chosen from each Stock 12 single Billets or so many as contain 12 notches for according to the Statute every Billet should be 3 foot long and 7 inches and a half in compass and if the stick be great to bear 2 notches the compass must be 10 inches and if 3 notches then the compass must be 14 inches and so increasing as the Billets are in greatness The number of Billets chosen is 30758412 there goeth to one Load of these 500 notches or single Billets then there will be 61516 Load three quarters and 37 single Billets worth in the Wood or place of felling ten shilling the Load which amounts to 30758 pound 8 shillings and 1 penny 3 farthings There may also be made from each Stock 6 Ostra Fagots which would be 3 foot long and in compass 24 inches they ought to be round and not flat for so they are much less though all one compass Of these Fagots there will be 15379206 and counting five score to the hundred they arise to 153792 hundred and 6 Fagots worth in the place where they are made 5 shillings the hundred in the whole 38448 pound 3 pence half penny From the remainder of Shoots and the offal of the Hoops and Billets may be made 2000000 of shread Fagots 4 foot long worth 8 shillings the hundred there being 20000 hundred amounts to 8000 pound from the Offal of the shread Fagots and the other Brush stuff may be made 225400 Bavins or Brush Fagots worth 6 shillings the hundred and there being 2254 hundred of them their summ amounts to 676 pound 4 shillings The total Improvement at this fifth season of felling amounts to 126992 pound 10 shillings 2 pence farthing At all the after Fellings the growth of this Wood will be every time greater and the Shoots more in number than the last for these Stocks will grow and thrive above an hundred years Now at the next or seventh season of felling the Product of this Wood being converted to the best advantage may return or be worth 200000 pound Let no man think this to be strange for when Seed or Plants are planted at such a distance as the roots may have room and liberty to spread and enlarge themselves and that the Shoots or young growth have Air and Sun also all incumbrances removed and taken away such Underwoods or Woodland shall be of more worth by the Acre than 12 Acres of ordinary Copices Groves or Vnder-woods therefore I have not set too high a rate on the Stuff or worth of Wood prized as aforesaid neither counted the utmost Production or Increase of growth We have many examples in Fruits and Herbs that are planted in Orchards and Gardens how far they exceed others of the same kind both in laregness and goodness as well as in tast smell colour c. that grow wild so called because they proceed from the earth without the help of Man Now although Nature is before and to be laid as a foundation to Arts yet Nature is the better perfected by Art because Art doth nothing but by the strength of Nature and to confirm your faith we shall give an account what this Land amounts to by the year for each or every Acre You are to take notice the Wood is allotted to grow 14 years the profit then made when those years are expired amounts to 200000 pound which is 14 pound 5 shillings 8 pence half penny yearly profit for eve-Acre of the thousand Acres In Holland there is Land hath been sowed with Flax seed and the Crop thereof hath been worth fifty pound the Acre but we shall come nearer home There is Land in England sowed with Wheat that has yielded at Harvest 2 Load upon an Acre which is 80 Bushels Now this Wheat if sold at the price Markets have given for 3 or 4 years past which was 8 shillings the Bushell then the profit of the Acre by the year comes to 32 pound which is above double the profit of the Woodland Suppose this Corn-Land yield but the one half of the former Increase which is 40 Bushels of Wheat upon one Acre then it comes to 16 pound Again if the Land should yield the first Increase and Wheat sold for 4 shillings the bushel for commonly great Crops or a plentiful Harvest cause low Markets yet then this Acre of Land is worth 16 pound yearly This may be sufficient to satisfie any reasonable man We shall return to our Work Now because it is a general Custome in England at the felling of under-Woods to reserve young Eats or Standils to grow for Timber-Trees therefore in such Woods you are not to leave them at a nearer distance than 4 Pearch which is 72 foot for if you leave them nearer the said Trees will destroy and much hinder the growth and thriving of the under-Woods as hath been formerly declared Thus much may serve to have here spoken for the first second and third Distance of ground between Plants also planting under-woods IV. Dist. The next or fourth Distance is one Pearch or 18 foot At this distance there may be digged or delved a Plot of ground either square or round the quantity to contain 4 foot square or 16 foot of ground At each point or corner or in the middle of the square sides must a Seed or Plant be planted either of Chesnut Ash Beech or Elme and if you plant of all these kinds an equal number there will then be 160801 square Plots and 160801 Plants of each kind which amount in the whole ground to 643204 plants these may all grow 30 or 40 years more or less time as there may be use for them or so long as every Man may please who shall be the Owner At so near a distance the Trees will not grow great in body as when they have more room but streight slender and tall also they will have very few and small boughs grow on the insides that are opposite each to other To make these Trees grow in bulk or greatness when they are grown to that heighth which is best for your occasions then nip or cut off their heads or tops Now about 30 years after planting the three fourth parts of these Trees would be grubbed or cut down that the remainder reserved for greater Timber may have the more room air and sun on all parts And in felling the former distance must be observed between them that are left standing those Trees that are felled may be converted to their several uses as followeth The Butt or lower end of the streightest Ash and Chesnuts that are best to slit must be made choice of for white hoops the size