AETIFICIAL FOEESTS OF EUROPE 



We have no coppice woods just like 

 these in America. Our willow farms 

 are, the only ones that have been sub- 

 jected to a system like the one de- 

 scribed, and these are entirely too 

 low to be called woods. They are 

 graded in size and age from one to 

 four years, and separated into blocks, 

 just hke the willow coppices of Ger- 

 many. At a distance the lithe stems 

 with diminutive tufts of foliage at the 

 top, standing in straight rows, almost 

 as dense as grain, have more the ap- 

 pearance of an agricultural product 

 than a tree farm. 



The Christmas tree plantations, a 

 kind of forest gardening, as it were, 

 remind us of the coppice in appear- 

 ance, but cannot truly be called such. 

 As the conifers that furnish us with 

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