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even five successive crops of sprouts, and would form stout trunks 

 with little taper, clear of branches almost to the fuU height reached 

 by the sprouts. 



This is ' the silvicultural system called stored coppice, or some- 

 times coppice under standards. The successful management of a 



Fig. 5.— Yellow poplar sprout forest in Maryland. 



forest under it depends largely upon the choice of the standards. 

 They should be seedlings, for seedhngs make the best trees, or the 

 most vigorous and healthy sprouts if seedlings can not be found, and 

 they should be distributed as regularly as possible over the ground. 

 The standards should be numerous enough at first to allow for 



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