. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. CHAPTER VIII ESTHETIC FORESTRY OR WOODLAND PARK MANAGEMENT' HE beautiful must be taken care of; the useful will take care of ; It is questionable whether this remark of Goethe's is as true to-day as it was in his time. It seems that we have entered upon a period when the esthetic aspects of our surroundings occupy us almost to the extent to which the old Greeks were accustomed to develop them. At least, a momentum has been set up by the preachers of the beautiful which bi
. The care of trees in lawn, street and park. With a list of trees and shrubs for decorative use. Trees; Trees. CHAPTER VIII ESTHETIC FORESTRY OR WOODLAND PARK MANAGEMENT' HE beautiful must be taken care of; the useful will take care of ; It is questionable whether this remark of Goethe's is as true to-day as it was in his time. It seems that we have entered upon a period when the esthetic aspects of our surroundings occupy us almost to the extent to which the old Greeks were accustomed to develop them. At least, a momentum has been set up by the preachers of the beautiful which bids fair to carrv us on in this direction with little effort. Forestry as a useful occupation has struggled hard, if not as yet in vain, for recognition in this country; it is prac tically still an unknown art, and now we are already discuss- ing esthetic forestry. Forestry is, in the first place, not one of the esthetic arts, but an industrial art, the object of which is similar to that of agriculture; namely, the management of the soil for the production of wood crops. Yet the nat- ural beauty, the sylvan charm and woodsy flavor of a forest, suggest readily the esthetic element which stimulates our artistic sense. Indeed, sylvan beauty is an "inevitable by- product of the ; Even the forester, whose business it is to grow logs rather ' Parts of this chapter were published before in Second Report of the American Park and Outdoor Art Association, i8q8. 185. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Fernow, B. E. (Bernhard Eduard), 1851-1923. New York Holt
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