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Show oo TREES. Benedictine monks for 910 years have been cultivating one of the world's finest forests. It surrounds an ancient hermitage, about 60 miles southeast of Florence, Italy. A report in an American forestry magazine says that this forest is as fine as It was nearly 1000 years ago, though lumber has been taken out of it steadily In great quantities. The shrewd monks plant new trees as fast as they cut down old ones. Our forests rapidly are disappearing. Unless we want a treeless America we, too, will have to plant a tree for jeach one logged Forest destruction I is our greatest waste. on |