Posted by Ian E-N on August 04, 2000 at 12:53:06 from es-electronics.lancs.ac.uk:
In Reply to: Picts and Martyrs posted by Ed Kiser on August 03, 2000 at 05:28:57:
>"coppice". Another one of those English expressions that never made
>it across the great Pond.
COPPICE: In time past, a popular way of getting wood regularly from forests without having to replant was 'coppicing'. Every twenty years or so, the trees were cut down nearly to the ground and the wood used for various purposes. These trees regenerated, producing several stems on each root or 'stool' and after another twenty years could be cut again, and so on ad infinitum. It is possible to do this with most deciduous trees, but the ones producing the strongest regrowth are sweet chestnut and hornbeam.
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