CHAPTER IX 
Highwoods, Copses, 
& Coppicewoods 
THE ancient English Forest Charters and 
Statutes only recognise two classes of woodland 
crops, namely, woods or highwoods (Boscus) and 
coverts or underwoods (Subboscus). As can easily 
be understood, copse (stored coppice, or coppice 
with standards) and coppice (Sylva cedua) were 
subsequent, and probably only casual, develop- 
ments of the original forms of woodland. 
Whether the woodland crops be now managed 
as woods or highwoods for the production of 
timber of large size, or as copse, or else as 
coppices or underwoods, they are all, when 
treated economically with the main object of 
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