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ing year. Furetage prevails in the Seine Valley, 

 and provides most of the firewood for Paris ; 

 it also obtains in the mountain regions of 

 Southern France, where it is not desirable to 

 denude the cover growing on steep slopes. In 

 this system, the whole of the coppice on a given 

 area is not felled, but only stool-shoots of certain 

 dimensions. The cutting is repeated every year 

 or at intervals of two to five years. High forest, 

 which is estabhshed and maintained to yield 

 mature timber of large size, consists of trees 

 raised from seed, the reproduction being also 

 from seed which is usually self-sown. As with 

 coppice so with high forest, two methods are 

 pursued. In one, trees of about the same age 

 are grouped and subjected to regular thinnings 

 tin the time arrives for natural reproduction. 

 This is secured by a series of fellings in order 

 to promote the formation of seed on the trees 

 left standing, and the growth of seedlings. 

 Ultimately, the old reserved seed trees are also 

 cut down and removed, and then the new crop 

 of trees, after a period of strict protection 

 gradually goes through the same process of 

 improvement fellings. In the jardinage or 

 selection plan of working, trees of all ages are 

 scattered over the forest area. There are no 

 periodical thinnings, but timber is obtained by 

 taking picked trees from a given area, on block 



