Re: Coppicing
- Subject: Re: Coppicing
- From: D* M*
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 22:55:47 -0500
>In a message dated 8/4/01 7:11:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>eoneill@attglobal.net writes:
>
>. So stooling is similar
> to/the same as coppicing, then? Or is there a technical difference? >>
>
>I looked through my books on this subject and do not find the word "coppice"
>in any pruning guide.
coppice (Forestry) v. To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to
cut back (as
young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
cop·pice n. A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially
one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering,
as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
--
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
l*@execpc.com
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