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origin. Fig. 7 shows at least two generations of coppice. An old Chest- 

 nut stump about three feet in diameter has, growing from its base, a 

 coppice Chestnut about twenty-six inches in diameter, and from this is 



No. 7— Three generations of Chestnut Coppice. 



growing a six-inch Chestnut which is the third generation. The twenty- 

 six inch tree developed from the root-system of the old stump, but in 

 2 Bull. 155. 



