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Show GROWING TREES IN BELGIUM There They Are Used to Redeem Waste Placet and Make Them Beautiful. While trees everywhere are swept down to he turned Into rag newspapers. newspa-pers. Ilelglum busies itself with planting. plant-ing. ItB townships have inHtituted tree fcRtlvala and I have Just come frorp one if them in the black country coun-try around Mons. What do you think of a public park, already a beautiful and refreshing one, on the district of terrlls of heaps j of . colliery rubbish and smelters' i scoria, resembling Cannock Chase? A landscape gardener hns turned the rough Inequalities, similar to the chopping chop-ping waves of the Straits of Hover into hills and dells and charming "points of view." M. Alphand did no better In transforming Lea Carrleres J d'Amerlque into tho llutte de Chan-mont Chan-mont as we now see it. The air of tho terrlls thus transformed Is now wholesome. It used to be poisoned with carbonic acid, which we know gives health and strength to trees. They suck what Is good air for them, but deadly air to us from long distances, dis-tances, and overhead an effect noted by aviators in the great Circuit de 1'Est. The next generation will see In the dales and along the drives on the erst-hlnckened flats Japanese trees of the gigantic species planted In Japan along the avenues to the temples. Matsus and cedars yet sapling will bravo storms on headlands created on purpose to be decorated by them. When one climbs a sugar-loaf hill one already sees a vast continuity of sylvan verdure. The trees of rapid growth will in time make way for those that come up slowly, such as the nh, the oak and the beech. The lady of tho forest, the elegant birch, rises In tall beauty. To Interest every one in tho work of sylvan transformation transforma-tion places are marked out for the greater and lesser towns, for villages and town lands, and lists of the trees they can plant with festal gladness are sent to them. Kach town, etc., has its day, or Sunday. The burgomaster burgo-master and inhabitants come out in their finest clothes, a band preceding them and playing popular airs. The church and musical societies furnish singers, who reserve their vocal effects ef-fects for the tree-planting scene and the banquet that follows. Ixwdon Truth. |