CHAPTER IX 



Highwoods, Copses, 

 & Coppicewoods 



THE ancient English Forest Charters and 

 Statutes only recognise two classes of woodland 

 crops, namely, woods or high woods (Boscus) and 

 coverts or underwoods (Subboscus). As can easily 

 be understood, copse (stored coppice, or coppice 

 with standards) and coppice (Sylva ctedua) were 

 subsequent, and probably only casual, develop- 

 ments of the original forms of woodland. 



Whether the woodland crops be now managed 

 as woods or highwoods for the production of 

 timber of large size, or as copse, or else as 

 coppices or underwoods, they are all, when 

 treated economically with the main object of 



