254 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 



British arboricultural methods hitherto prevailing, 

 is that French and German terms have, quite 

 unnecessarily, been introduced into books and 

 practical work. We have excellent, well-defined, 

 good old English and Scottish terms, such as 

 ' fall,' 'curfe/ ' highwoods/ ' copse/ * stores/ 

 ' heirs/ and the like, which are better than the 

 expressions sought to be introduced. The latter 

 should certainly be weeded out in favour of our 

 own stock of words handed down to us from 

 olden times. It will be no hard task to graft on 

 simple words to express operations, methods, and 

 conditions new to British Forestry without dis- 

 carding our old expressive terms in favour of 

 strange French words or ponderous and still 

 stranger Teutonisms. 



