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season. But it does not always turn out to be so. 

 Certain foresters have found the best time to be at the 

 close of the rainy season, while others have declared the 

 dry season to be the best. Much will depend on the 

 intensity of the sunlight, the strength of scorching 

 winds, the danger to young shoots from frost. A hard- 

 and-fast rule cannot be made, therefore. 



Stool-shoots are generally more shade-avoiding than 

 seedlings of the same species. No doubt, in the Tropics, 

 where the sunlight is much more intense than in temper- 



FlG. 71. 



ate zones, they can stand more cover ; but coppicing 

 under complete leaf-canopy, especially when the latter 

 consists of crowns of evergreen species, should be 

 avoided. 



(6) Regeneration from Root-suckers. Many trees, 

 having superficial roots, have the faculty of producing 

 shoots from adventitious buds on the roots. These are 

 called "root-suckers" or "root-shoots," and may be pro- 

 duced either during the lifetime of the parent tree 

 (Fig. 71), where the roots are exposed or have been 

 wounded, or they may spring forth after the parent tree 

 has been felled. The natural order of the Leguminosae 

 perhaps possesses the greatest number of species having 



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