CHAPTER XV. 



TRANSITION FROM LOWER TO HIGHER FOREST 

 CONDITIONS. 



IT is perhaps somewhat arbitrary to class a sys- 

 tematically worked coppice as a low condition of 

 forest, especially when, as sometimes happens, it 

 is the condition best suited to local requirements; 

 but, nevertheless, as there is a gradually increas- 

 ing scale of outcome from the coppice to the high 

 timber forest, the classification of the various 

 conditions into higher and lower appears legiti- 

 mate. 



As we have already seen, the transition from a 

 young coppice to a forest of trees of mixed ages 

 is easy and natural ; we require only to spare a 

 few seedlings at each felling, until we have the 

 required proportion of high timber, when we can 

 supplement the yield of each coppice clearance by 

 felling with it a few older stems of various ages, 

 and leaving a corresponding number of seedlings 

 to take their place. 



The transition from the forest of trees of various 



