. Birds through the year . TREE-CREEPER. THE HEART OF THE COPSE Nature runs riot in the copses of May with a peculiar pro-fusion and beauty. Copses occupy large tracts in most ofthe southern counties, and are a peculiar modification of theoriginal wild growths of the spot. Their strict designationin forestry is coppice with standards, and the meaning of theterm becomes obvious when we examine a wood of this or copsewood means wood that is cut, from the Frenchcouper; and the ash and hazel rods and the other youngstems in the copses should be cut under a proper system ofmanagement a
. Birds through the year . TREE-CREEPER. THE HEART OF THE COPSE Nature runs riot in the copses of May with a peculiar pro-fusion and beauty. Copses occupy large tracts in most ofthe southern counties, and are a peculiar modification of theoriginal wild growths of the spot. Their strict designationin forestry is coppice with standards, and the meaning of theterm becomes obvious when we examine a wood of this or copsewood means wood that is cut, from the Frenchcouper; and the ash and hazel rods and the other youngstems in the copses should be cut under a proper system ofmanagement at regular periods, varying with the productive-ness of the soil, on an average five or six years. Among thelower copsewood stand dotted at intervals a number of sturdyyoung oaks. These are the standards, and oaks were chosenfor cultivation in this way because they gave the most valu-able timber when mature. Other trees were most profitablewhen encouraged to send up a bunch of saplings every fewyears from the old stools. This small copse
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