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A MANUAL OF FORESTRY 



grow saw timber, owing to the fact that seedling reproduction 

 can be relied on to fill the gaps where sprouting has failed. The 

 rotation instead of being limited to forty years or less, as in 

 coppice, may be as high as eighty years. 



In New Kngland its field of usefulness is in the southern and 

 central portions where the hardwoods reproduce extensively by 

 sprouts. The method is applied by making two cuttings. The 



Fig.. 19. Coppice with standards as used in Europe. The coppice has just been cut 



leaving the standards. 



first resembles the seed cutting in shelterwood and is intended to 

 get seedling reproduction started. About 30 to 40 per cent of 

 the volume is taken out, the poorest specimens being cut. Where 

 the stand is composed of species like chestnut, which will sprout 

 well even on an eighty-year rotation, there is less need to secure 

 seedling reproduction and the seed cutting can be very light. 1 



1 Even in stands where at eighty years every stump will sprout, the stumps are 

 relatively so far apart that the young sprouts do not form a close stand, and a 

 mixture of seedlings is needed to grow clear-bodied trees. 



