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NOTES ON FORESTRY. 



the coppice takes the lead for thirty years, when 

 it rapidly drops behind. 



The period of coppice-rotation in Germany is 

 usually thirty years, but the above-mentioned In- 

 dian trees will give better results in ten years than 

 beech or oak in thirty. 



Coppice should be grown tolerably thick, and 

 blanks caused by decayed stumps immediately 

 re-stocked ; the stems will thus grow tall and 

 straight, and both yield more fuel, and give a 

 better proportion of poles, than if the stocks were 

 more scattered. 



