SIMPLE COPPICE. Ill 



PART III. 

 COPPICE. 



WE have already seen that a coppice is a forest 

 which is reproduced principally by means of stool 

 shoots or suckers. This is equivalent to saying that 

 the broad-leaved species alone are adapted to this 

 system of working.* The system of coppice includes 

 two methods of treatment : (i) Simple coppice in 

 which no reserves at all are left, or, if any are 

 preserved, they are not intended to stand for more 

 than two 'rotations of the underwood ; (ii) coppice 

 with standards or stored coppice, termed also "high 

 forest over coppice" or " coppice under high forest," 

 in which the standards are preserved for not less 

 than three rotations of the underwood. 



CHAPTER I. 

 SIMPLE COPPICE. 



IN France simple coppice is grown on rather a 

 large scale, but it is for the most part in the hands 

 of private proprietors. The communes, however, 

 possess about 750,000 acres of it ; but it is only under 

 exceptional circumstances that the State adopts this 

 treatment. Article 70 of the Statute of 1827, which 

 applies to all woodlands under the control of the 

 * See ante, p. 16. 



