FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



the coppice beneath. The appearance 

 of the whole is that of an open forest 

 into which the younger thickets have 

 penetrated. 



The esthetic effect of this combina- 

 tion may be described in very few 

 words. While the coppice loses much 

 of its charm, the overspreading forest 

 gains something by this sacrifice. The 

 former keeps the soil in fair and fresh 

 condition, thus insuring a healthy 

 growth to the large trees. It also 

 shades the lower portions of their 

 trunks, in consequence of which many 

 of them develop into clean specimens, 

 with strong, well-rounded stems, and 

 graceful, wide-spreading crowns. 



The last of the four types, the " high 

 forest," is the most artificial and highly 

 developed of the series. In its construc- 

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