ARTIFICIAL FORESTS OF EUROPE 
forests differ from our second-growth 
woods of the Hast; and yet, as com- 
pared to the other three Huropean 
types, their principal merit, esthetic- 
ally, is their naturalness. Though 
very different from our virgin forests, 
they nevertheless possess the variety, 
cheerfulness, and interesting play of 
light and shade that have been noted 
in an earlier chapter. In Germany 
they are usually somewhat precise and 
trim in appearance; but in France and 
elsewhere they look a little wilder, and 
are often enlivened with holly or ivy, 
some sportive raspberry, or other gay 
shrub or vine. In European countries 
where forestry has become thoroughly 
established this type of forest has grad- 
ually disappeared, or has diminished 
greatly in proportion, in order to make 
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