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holding annual meetings to discuss the work of this industry. 

 The demand for nuts in the markets of the world is growing 

 rapidly, and the business of nut growing has become very 

 profitable, especially in the south. 



PRACTICAL EXERCISES. 



1. Description of Various Nuts. Bring to class all the various 

 kinds of nuts you can obtain and tabulate the description of each as 

 indicated below: 



Name of Nut Size Nature of Hulls Kind of Kernel P1 j{Je 



LESSON XIX. 

 TREES IN THE LANDSCAPE. 



Beauty and Utility. Goethe's remark, that "The beautiful 

 must be taken care of; the useful will take care of itself," is 

 to a large extent true to-day. The American people are 

 slow to pay the price for beauty, especially in landscape art. 

 We are entering upon a period, however, when the esthetic 

 aspects of our surroundings are beginning to occupy our at- 

 tention. Forestry is not one of the esthetic arts, but an in- 

 dustrial one, the object of which is similar to agriculture; 

 namely the management of the soil for the production of 

 wood crops, yet the natural beauty, the sylvan charm and the 

 woodsy flavor of a forest readily suggest the esthetic ele- 

 ment which stimulates our artistic sense. It will be impos- 

 sible to develop a satisfactory country life, without conserv- 

 ing all the beauty of the landscape, and developing the people 

 to the point of appreciating it. 



The Forest, an Element of Beauty in the Landscape. Both 

 the artistically kept park of the city and the natural neglected 

 forest of the open country contribute the largest element to 

 the picture in the landscape. The forest furnishes the back- 

 ground a*gainst which the farm home scenes show most at- 

 tractively. The broken sky-line of the trees, the variation in 

 form and color of the leaves, the massing of shrubs at the 

 borders of the forests, the seasonal changes of the foliage 



