Excerpt from Sylva: Or a Discourse of Forest Trees, Vol. 2 of 2 Roots will pay for the grubbing, and yield you some feet of the best timber; whereas being let stand, nothing would have grown: If the ground be a shallow soil, forbear filling the holes quite, but tset some running-wood in the loosened earth, and the ends of the old roots being cut, will furnish the sides of the holes speedily In thin copp'ces 'tis profitable to lay some boughs a - thwart, which will be rooted to advantage against next fall All great rotten stubs among our under-woods should be extirpated, as making way for seedlings, andsyoung roots to spring and run The cutting, slanting, smooth, and close, is of great importance; and frequent felling gives way and air to the subnascent seedlings, and the rest will make lusty shoots. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.