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garden clearings, hundreds of times during past 

 ages, and this points to the probability of the 

 vines having grown up with new trees, a prob- 

 ability that is confirmed by the well-known 

 dislike of Landolphia for dense shade. When 

 we seek to restore Nature's work we should 

 follow her methods, and if this supposition be 

 true these methods would, I think, find few 

 supporters among practical men. The alternative 

 would appear to be to abandon any idea of 

 attempting what Nature herself did not attempt. 

 There are probably a million hectares of 

 Landolphia forests in the Province, carrying 

 rubber of the value, at J£10 per hectare, of 



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