ARTIFICIAL FORESTS OF EUROPE 
powers of shade endurance, a dwarfed 
yew tree, or a beech with refined, fan- 
like spray, comes into notice in the 
vista. 
If these are some of the changes 
that are wrought in forests through 
the application of a new science, if, 
through forestry in Europe, one kind 
of beauty has passed away and another 
kind has been called forth, will our 
own forests, it may be asked, un- 
dergo in time similar alterations? 
We cannot doubt that they will grow 
more artificial; but under the modified 
application of the science of forestry 
to our own conditions, so different 
from those of Europe, the esthetic 
changes to be looked for would be 
difficult to predict. Nor would these 
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