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Show CHINA IS IMPORTING PEAR AND APPLE TREES -i WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Nov. 22. A nursery, of this city has received through the Chinese Consul at San Francisco en order to ship peveral hundred hun-dred fruit trees to China. The trees include apples, pears, cherries and peaches, and Is the first order of the kind known to have been placed by the Chinese In the Paacific Northwest. The trees were ordered on the recommendation recom-mendation of W. A. Bache of Port Townsend, Wash., a railroad promoter in China, who thinks that the climate of parts of the Oriental empire where the trees are to be planted is so similar to that of Walla Walla valley that no harm will follow transportation across the ocean. . . |