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come champions of their forest friends and to 

 take up some day the study of forestry in real 

 earnest. If so, this chapter will answer many 

 preliminary questions. It gives an idea of the 

 breadth and scope of the great subject of for- 

 estry and shows in brief the life and work of the 

 forester. A hint is also given concerning the 

 interesting details of tree botany, and of the sci- 

 entific possibilities in laboratory work. 



