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Show ff i OPPORTUNITIES IN PALESTINE. y ) - Si .! Palestine W ccoptionally fitted for ; forestry. On itsBand surfaces, as on M r ts chalk hills, tiees flourish and hear WL' S?l ,n an extraordinarily short time, t The eucalypuvsf,' ror example. In three' Hl 2T our yeafs reaches a height and H girth which elsewhere requircf lrom Ma Z.i to tonl and when cut of at a HSi ?,?,8ht ot twjo meters It develops to I HKT the full agahk It Ib a common' thing to find groat olive and fig trees grow-isg grow-isg among the rocks. The best oranges on the European market are from the land -which is sand, yet fetches now the highest prico for orange culture. There In a Jesting phrase among Jewish colonists colon-ists as to Palestinian fertility, "If you but stick an umbrella In the soil you 1 will next year get a crop of them." The orange trees bear fruit two months before those of Italy and Spain. Jewish nurserymen are developing marked skill In grafting. Orange culture cul-ture has now spread from the coast Into Samaria. But the olive forestry Is most promising. By 1912 the Jewish Jew-ish people will own, according to an authority, in Palestine some 60,000 olive and fruit trees. Chicago News. oo |