FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 



be missed if they were to be removed? 

 They now exercise a beneficial influ- 

 ence on the drainage and moisture 

 conditions of the surrounding farm- 

 lands, and they supply some of the 

 home wants of the farmers. But they 

 have an esthetic value also. They are 

 usually in neat and healthy condition, 

 and, viewed either from within or 

 without, they are balm to the eyes as 

 they lie scattered promiscuously over 

 the hills. 



It is hardly two hundred miles by 

 road from that region to the high 

 mountains of the I^orth Carolina and 

 Tennessee border, where we find broad- 

 leaf forests of the wildest and roughest 

 kind. These happily still possess the 

 great charm of undisturbed nature. 

 The small mountain towns lie scat- 

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