SEEDLINGS, FOODSTORES AND GERMINATION. 9 I 



enormous ; the larger part of at least two continents, 

 Africa and South America, is still mostly covered by 

 primaeval forests ; and in these two continents, also, 

 the population is insufficient. Thus, although India 

 (295,000,000 population), China (383,000,000) and 

 most of Europe is far too crowded to grow much food 

 for export, yet there is a large balance of unoccupied 

 land able to yield food of some sort. The subjection 

 of the earth by man is therefore still decidedly in- 

 complete. 



