POEEST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



Christmas trees are not capable of 

 sprouting from the stump, the growers 

 must depend upon planting for their 

 propagation, which is a principle di- 

 rectly opposed to the idea of coppice. 



Throughout the Eastern States there 

 is an abundance of broadleaf stump- 

 sprout thickets, which have come by 

 inheritance to the ground from which 

 their progenitors were removed by the 

 wood-cutter's ax. While some of these 

 approach nearly to the European cop- 

 pices in intention, they do not bear out 

 the resemblance sufficiently for a com- 

 parison. They lack their system and 

 structure, though they depend upon 

 the same power of reproduction for 

 their existence. Nevertheless, they 

 have their own charm. I remember 

 one, at the edge of a tall forest, in 

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