FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
be missed if they were to be removed? 
They now exercise a beneficial infiu- 
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 North 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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