FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
way for the other more highly devel- 
oped forms. 
The young forest growth that goes 
by the name of “coppice” is linked to 
the preceding kind by the association of 
time, for it is also one of the old forms. 
The sound of the word brings to mind 
the copses of England, those spor- 
tive little thickets that we may have 
read about, or seen running along the 
streams, or straggling over the hills. 
But the coppice of Germany or France 
is not quite the same as the copse of 
England. It is a young forest of busi- 
nesslike aspect, in which a design for 
usefulness is unmistakable. The pur- 
pose in it is to reap an approximately 
equal harvest each year, such as fire- 
wood from beeches, hornbeams, or the 
like, withes from willows, charcoal from 
chestnut, or tanbark from oak. 
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