FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
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 preéminence 
among the trees of the future, because, 
possessing to an unusual degree the 
qualities that will make them amenable 
to the new and improved 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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