(From TJ. S. Apartment of Apiculture. Forost Service.) 



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An agricultural colony in Palestine has ju.^t applied 

 to the U S. forest service for help in planting treer.to "bind 

 the drifting sands of the lledi terras an. The colony is near 

 Jaffa, or Tafa, the ancient -Joppa of the Bibla, and there is 

 being developed, in connection w5 th it a seaside resort, with" 

 h ,;:6.(., villas, "bath houses, a.icl gardens. 



The experts of the service point oxit that the recla- 

 mation of sand dunes is not a serious problem in the eastern 

 United States because the prevailing winds are from the land 

 and the sand is "blown into the sea* On the west coast the 

 situation is more serious* The most notable example of re- 

 claimed sand areas there is furnished by Golden Gate Park, San 

 Francisco, where grasses, acacias r and, later, trees and shrubs 

 have converted sand wastes into pleasure grounds of great beauty, 



The attention of the Palestine colony is called to 

 the wonderful reclamation of the Landes, Prance, where a T/ealth- 

 producing forest of maritime pine, the source of the French tur- 

 pentine, has been ;gr own oO take the place of shifting dunes. 

 The American foresters ai&o' give the address of the French 

 seedsman who furnished this government with the maritime pine 

 se^d which has been used in planting experiments on the Florida 

 national forest, near the Gulf coast. 



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