ON GROWING TREES 

 FOR LUMBER 



IDEAS ON PROFITABLE RE-FORESTRATION 



A GOOD many years ago I had a talk with an 

 official connected with the Department of 

 Forestry, at Washington, in which I sug- 

 gested 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. 



That was the 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 



[VOLUME XI CHAPTER VI] 



