FOREST TREES AIN^D FOREST SCENERY 



way for the other more highly devel- 

 oped forms. 



The young forest growth that goes 

 by the name of " coppice " is linked to 

 the preceding kind by the association of 

 time, for it is also one of the old forms. 

 The sound of the word brings to mind 

 the copses of England, those spor- 

 tive little thickets that we may have 

 read about, or seen running along the 

 streams, or straggling over the hills. 

 But the coppice of Germany or France 

 is not quite the same as the copse of 

 England. It is a young forest of busi- 

 nesslike aspect, in which a design for 

 usefulness is unmistakable. The pur- 

 pose in it is to reap an approximately 

 equal harvest each year, such as fire- 

 wood from beeches, hornbeams, or the 

 like, withes from willows, charcoal from 

 chestnut, or tanbark from oak. 

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