254 OUR FORESTS AND WOODLANDS 
British arboricultural methods hitherto prevailing, 
is that French and German terms have, quite 
unnecessarily, been introduced into books and 
practical work. We have excellent, well-defined, 
good old English and Scottish terms, such as 
‘fall,’ ‘curfe,’ ‘highwoods,’ ‘copse,’ ‘stores,’ 
‘heirs,’ and the like, which are better than the 
expressions sought to be introduced. The latter 
should certainly be weeded out in favour of our 
own stock of words handed down to us from 
olden times. It will be no hard task to graft on 
simple words to express operations, methods, and 
conditions new to British F orestry without dis- 
carding our old expressive terms in favour of 
strange French words or ponderous and still 
stranger Teutonisms. 
