FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
Christmas trees are not capable of 
sprouting from the stump, the growers 
must depend upon planting for their 
propagation, which is a principle di- 
rectly opposed to the idea of coppice. 
Throughout the Eastern States there 
is an abundance of broadleaf stump- 
sprout thickets, which have come by 
inheritance to the ground from which 
their progenitors were removed by the 
wood-cutter’s ax. While some of these 
approach nearly to the European cop- 
pices in intention, they do not bear out 
the resemblance sufficiently for a com- 
parison. They lack their system and 
structure, though they depend upon 
the same power of reproduction for 
their existence. Nevertheless, they 
have their own charm. I remember 
one, at the edge of a tall forest, in 
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