ARTIFICIAL FORESTS OF EUROPE 
We have no coppice woods just like 
these in America. Our willow farms 
are the only ones that have been sub- 
jected to a system like the one de- 
scribed, and these are entirely too 
low to be called woods. They are 
graded in size and age from one to 
four years, and separated into blocks, 
just like the willow coppices of Ger- 
many. At a distance the lithe stems 
with diminutive tufts of foliage at the 
top, standing in straight rows, almost 
as dense as grain, have more the ap- 
pearance of an agricultural product 
than a tree farm. 
The Christmas tree plantations, a 
kind of forest gardening, as it were, 
remind us of the coppice in appear- 
ance, but cannot truly be called such. 
As the conifers that furnish us with 
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