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Show TREES ABLE TO LIVEJMVER KENT, O., Jane 29. Trees have a capacity for earthly immortality, according to 'Martin L. Devey, president pres-ident of the Davey Tree Expert company. ' "Nature provides no reason why a tree should die ' of old age," Davey says!" "Its living part's are annually renewed, and the tree has the power also of replacing lost parts. It has no period of sentility. "There are trees now living in California that towered toward the clotids five centuries before the I birth of Christ. f" "On the island of Teneraiffe are j living trees that were flourishing j before the dawn of the ancient civ-j civ-j ilization of Greece. They are nearly near-ly 3000 years older than the oldest 'Biff Trees of California, j "If favorable conditions could be made permanent, lucre :s no reason why a tree should not live forever, j But the trouble is that conditions j change. The supply of water, may ' be cut off, the necessary chemicals 1 in the soil may be depleted, the tree 1 may be killed by lightning,. or other violent agency, or it may be at-I at-I tacked by fungi, bacteria or insect pests. ...... y t |