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Show China Is Planting Trees. The American commercial attache at Peking reports that the gospel of tree planting is spreading in China, the "ew York Tribune stall's. And Arbor day, the truly great invention of the. late J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, once secrelary of agriculture, 1ms been added to the calendar of public fes-tHals. fes-tHals. With characteristic frugality, however, the Chinese combine the observance ob-servance with their ancient one, "firing Ming," when they visit the graves of their ancestors corresponding correspond-ing a way to our Memorial" day. No country is more in need of trees than China. It has been styled the "forestless nation.' In one of ex-President ex-President Itoosevelt's conservation messages photographic views were printed to show the desolation of a great part of the Chinese domain, where. In ancient times there had been trees and streams.- No trees, no water that theory of forestry is rather well substantiated. And without water there can he no life. China is commonly spoken of as a densely populated country. But, in fact, the density is In a small part of the vast area, more than ninety per cent of the population occuyiug one-third of the land. To restore the forests to any considerable con-siderable part of China would call for persistent planting and cultivation over a long period. But a hundred or even a thousand years would not seem long to tlie Chinese. |