FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



changes be predetermined, but, on the 

 contrary, would depend very largely 

 upon chance. It should be noted 

 that forestry and landscape art are dis- 

 tinct; that the former, ordinarily, is 

 not affected by the latter, and has its 

 own ends and aims — those of material 

 usefulness. I say ordiiiarily^ because 

 there are circumstances under which 

 forestry miglit^ with slight modifica- 

 tions and without a compromise to its 

 own interests, adjust itself to some of 

 the principles of landscape art. In- 

 deed, this possible adjustment has been 

 a subject of interest in Germany for 

 more than twenty years, and the feasi- 

 bility of a relationship between land- 

 scape art and forestry has been practi- 

 cally demonstrated by a noted German 

 forester, Herr Heinrich von Salisch, on 

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