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CF SOMERSERSHIREÉsS 208

CHAPRERZ NEZ WOODS,&c.

"THIS diviſion does not abound with va, but eln grows in hedges, and if their heads are not unfairly lopt, get to a lize ſufficiently large for the keels of ſhips of war. For the moſt part they grow from the inchors or ſuckers of the neighbouring trees; probably ſome from ſeed, Few are planted from nurſeries, nor is there often any occaſion for it, elm being the ſpontaneous produÑion of the country. Their heads or ſide-branches are ſeldom mutilated, it being underßſtood that the Rem ſwells in proportion to the : ſap that is drawn from the root to the head, There are many coppices(chiefly of oak underwood) on the declivity of Quantock and other hills, but they are under no ſyſtem of management. Their value, at preſent,

of twenty years growth, is from four to ten pounds per acre.

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