CHAPTER X 



LANDSCAPE FORESTRY 



LANDSCAPE EFFECT OF TREES IN GENEEAL. 



ALTHOUGH landscape gardening has long been regarded as 

 the proper art for dealing with the ornamental distribution 

 of woods and trees over the face of the country, it is, in 

 reality, the forester alone who renders that distribution a 

 source of enjoyment to the cultured eye and taste. However 

 carefully woods, clumps, and single trees may be laid down 

 in the plans of the landscape gardener, and however faith- 

 fully the execution of such plans may be carried out, their 

 successful development depends almost entirely upon the 

 skill and judgment with which they are thinned out, and 

 dealt with from time to time as their development proceeds. 

 It is apparent to everyone in possession of a true sense 

 of arboreal beauty and landscape effect, that very few of 

 the original designs of the landscape gardener are brought 

 to a successful issue, owing to the imperfect or injudicious 

 treatment masses or groups of trees receive at various stages 

 of their growth. Even at the time of planting, many errors 

 are committed which may be traced to a lack of forestry 

 or arboricultural knowledge and experience. Clumps, for 

 instance, are planted on the same principles as would be 

 observed in planting a wood or forest, heavy-foliaged trees 

 are used where lightness is desirable, and vice versd, and a 

 general observance of rule-of-thumb practices takes the place 

 of artistic grouping and arrangement. 



No doubt, much detail is left to the workman or foreman 

 which ought to be superintended by the artist himself. It 

 is hardly conceivable that any genuine lover of nature would 



