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woods. Their rapidity in growth is often re- 
markable, and they are bound to prove a good 
source of revenue in well-managed woodlands. 
Sycamore and maple planted in 1868 to 1871, 
upon high land on the Earl of Selborne’s Black- 
moor estate in Hants, girthed up to three feet 
in September 1899, and they had already seeded 
themselves freely in blank places throughout 
portions of the plantation. Here is a description 
of this small plantation, formerly an oak grove, 
of 24 acres known as Highfield Copse: ‘A good, 
deep, fresh soil varying from sand to sandy loam, 
sloping very gently towards W., at which end 
the soil is a loamy clay. A mixture of Oak, 
from 4 to 6 feet in girth, originally standards 
in copse, with Sycamore, Maple, Elm, Lime, 
Beech, and other trees planted about 1868 to 
1871. Some of the Maple and Sycamore now 
girth up to 3 feet at breast-height. The crop 
now forms full canopy in places, but in others 
there are blanks; and in some of the blanks 
self-sown sycamore are coming up abundantly. 
Where it still exists, the coppice is mostly of 
hazel, but patchy, with birch here and there.’ 
In woodlands managed on business principles, 
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