FOREST AND FORESTRY DEFINED. 97 



treatment of forest areas specifically, we begin to 

 practise the art of forestry we learn hoiv to do ; 

 and finally, applying this art systematically for the 

 purpose for which all technical arts are carried on, 

 namely, for money results, we come to practise the 

 business of forestry. 



Like agriculture, forestry is concerned in the 

 use of the soil for crop production ; as the agri- 

 culturist is engaged in the production of food-crops, 

 so the forester is engaged in the production of 

 wood-crops, and finally both are carrying on their 

 art for the practical purpose of a revenue. 



Forest crop production is the business of the pro- 

 fessional forester. 



A forester then is not, as the American public 

 has been prone to apply the word, one who knows 

 the names of trees and flowers, a botanist ; nor 

 even one who knows their life history, a dendrolo- 

 gist ; nor one who, for the love of trees, proclaims 

 the need of preserving them, a propagandist ; nor 

 one who makes a business of planting parks or 

 orchards, an arboriculturist, fruit grower, land- 

 scape gardener, or nurseryman ; nor one who cuts 

 down trees and converts them into lumber, a wood- 

 chopper or a lumberman ; nor one set to prevent 

 forest fires or depredations in woodlands, a forest 

 guard ; nor even one who knows how to produce 

 and reproduce wood-crops, a silviculturist ; but / 

 in the fullest sense of the term, a forester is a ^ 

 technically educated man who, with the knowledge 



