CHAPTER X. 



THE SIMPLE COPPICE SYSTEM. 



general idea of the coppice system is well-known to foresters, y/,,, 

 Reproduction from stool shoots is entirely or almost entirely 



relied on for the renewal of the crop. Fellings made are clear tur f 



- system- 



fellings and the crop is immediately regenerated by coppice shoots 

 supplemented by whatever seedlings are already on the ground. 

 The adoption of this system of management entirely depends on 

 the ability of the species to reproduce itself vigorously by coppice. 

 It is well-known that certain species will not coppice ; Alnus 

 nepalensis can be pollarded but not coppiced ; other species will only 

 coppice up to a certain age and the coppicing powers of the same 

 species vary in different localities or at different elevations. Full 

 details regarding the coppicing power of the species must be avail- 

 able before the detailed management of a coppice working circle 

 can be evolved. Fortunately the sal, teak, and most scrub species 

 coppice vigorously and where the object of management is timber 

 of small .size and firewood this system is to be recommended, but 

 with sal can only be adopted where there is no frost. Sal coppice 

 is best developed in Gorakhpur division and a special technique 

 has been evolved which differs from that of the text-books. 



" Admittedly the Gorakhpur system 62 is simple coppice because The 

 the coppice system is called so on account of the mode of origin of Gorakh- 

 the crop, i.e., it is reproduced from stools, not otherwise. To call modifica~ 

 it simple coppice is strictly accurate. At the same time its mode tions. 

 of treatment and its method of regeneration differ so sharply from 

 the simple coppice of European forestry that to any one unfamiliar 

 with Gorakhpur the impression conveyed by calling it simple 



" Gorakhpur sal management, unpublished note WOOD 



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