SILVICULTURAL SYSTEMS 



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 leaving the standards. 



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C. POLE-WOOD COPPICE. 



This system combines reproduction by sprouts and reproduc- 

 tion by seed in varying proportions. The seedhng reproduction 

 is secured under shelter, as in the shelterwood system; and the 

 pole-wood coppice system stands in a position midway between 

 the simple coppice system and the shelterwood system. Its 

 advantages are that sprout reproduction which requires so little 

 skill to secure, is utilized, and yet long enough rotations can be 

 used to grow saw timber, owing to the fact that seedling re- 

 production can be reHed on to fill the gaps where sprouting has 

 failed. The rotation instead of being limited to forty years or 

 less, as in the simple coppice system, may be as high as eighty 

 years. 



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

 central portions where the hardwoods reproduce extensively by 

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



