FOREST TREES AND FOREST SCENERY 
plication of the scientific principles of 
forestry, under special conditions, to 
the European forests of old. Having 
referred repeatedly to forestry itself, 
I now purpose, to the extent which a 
single chapter will permit, to explain 
the sources of beauty, or the absence of 
it, in these artificial forests. I shall 
thus place in contrast with our own, 
which are just beginning to undergo 
a new process of development, those of 
Europe, which have long been sub- 
jected to one in many respects similar. 
The importance of forests had long 
been understood by the people of 
Europe. The relation which they held 
to civilized life, both in a material way 
and otherwise, led, more than a century 
ago, to a systematic and_ scientific 
treatment. It was realized that these 
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