Forest Trees
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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The beauty of a forest is not simple in character, but is due to many separate sources. The trees contribute much the shrubs, the rocks, the mosses play their part the purity of the air. The forest silence the music of wind in the trees. These and other influences combined to produce woodland beauty and charm. A first consideration, however, should be to know the beauty that is revealed by the trees themselves. Here it will be wise to make a selection to choose out of the great variety of our forest flora. Those trees that most deserve our attention. Many of our forest trees have naturally a restricted range. Others are narrowing or widening their range through human interference. Still others have already established their right to a preeminence 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 communist, are most useful, are often distinguished for qualities that please the eye or appeal directly to the mind. In accordance with the ideas already expressed in the preface, the considerations that will determine what trees shall be described RS follows. First, trees of beauty. Next, those that are common and familiar. Finally, those that are important, both for the present and the future because they are useful and have an extended geographical distribution. The trees selected for description will here be divided into the two conventional groups of broadly species and conifers, beginning with the former.