GROWING TREES FOR 

 LUMBER 



PROFITABLE FORESTRY 



MANY years ago I had a talk with an 

 official connected with the Department 

 of Forestry, at Washington, in which I 

 suggested that the problems of his department 

 could best be met by the development of new 

 types of forest trees. 



The official regarded the suggestion as 

 grotesque. In common with nearly everyone 

 else at that time he looked upon the tree as 

 a fixed product of nature, quite beyond the 

 possibilities of any change that man could 

 direct. 



There was a time when Darwinism, although 

 it had pretty fully established itself in the scien- 

 tific world, was still on trial in the minds of the 

 people in general. And even those who accepted 

 the general truth of the Darwinian doctrine of 

 evolution for the most part did not realize that 

 evolution is a process that is going on about us 



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