FOKEST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



plication of the scientific principles of 

 forestry, under special conditions, to 

 the European forests of old. Having 

 referred repeatedly to forestry itself, 

 I now purpose, to the extent which a 

 single chapter will permit, to explain 

 the sources of beauty, or the absence of 

 it, in these artificial forests. I shall 

 thus place in contrast with our own, 

 which are just beginning to undergo 

 a new process of development, those of 

 Europe, which have long been sub- 

 jected to one in many respects similar. 

 The importance of forests had long 

 been understood by the people of 

 Europe. The relation which they held 

 to civilized life, both in a material way 

 and otherwise, led, more than a century 

 ago, to a systematic and scientific 

 treatment. It was realized that these 

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