FOREST TEEES AND FOEEST SCENEEY 



deserve our attention. Many of our 

 forest trees have naturally a restricted 

 range; others are narrowing or widen- 

 ing their range through human inter- 

 ference ; still others have already es- 

 tablished their right to a preeminence 

 among the trees of the future, because, 

 possessing to an unusual degree the 

 qualities that will make them amenable 

 to the new and unproved methods of 

 treatment known as "forestry," they 

 are certain to receive special care and 

 attention; while those that are not so 

 fortunate will be left to fight their own 

 battles, or may even be exterminated 

 to make room for the more useful 

 kinds. Among all these the rarest are 

 not necessarily the most beautiful. 

 Those that are commonest and most 

 useful are often distinguished for qual- 

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