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permanent supply of timber to meet their needs. The 

 work is under the care of Mr. J. Hers. 



The Tcheng-Tai Railway, which connects the capital 

 of Shansi province with the Peking-Hankow line, started 

 a nursery and reforestation work several years ago in 

 order to furnish certain of their equipment supplies. 



Governor Yen Hsi-shan, the able and progressive 

 Tuchun of Shansi, this spring distributed 350 pounds 

 of Robinia pseudo-acacia (black locust) seed for 

 nurseries throughout the province, as the beginning of 

 a*i extended forestry policy which he is inaugurating. 



The Kiangsi Provin- 

 cial Government carries 

 an annual budget of 

 $20,000 for forestry 

 work and has three for- 

 est stations, one at 

 Kuling specializing in 

 tea and Tung-yu, one at 

 Tungting Sz specializing 

 in Tung-yu, and one at 

 Fu Kuo hsien, devoted 

 to forest plantings. 



In Chekiang, a number of leading citizens have or- 

 ganized the "Yuin Yao Company" with a capital of 

 $80,000, and fully subscribed, and being paid in at the 

 rate of 10 per cent a year, the annual payments of 

 $8,000 being used for forestry work, mostly planting. 

 This large company was an outgrowth of one of Mr. D. 

 Y. Lin's lecture trips to Hangchow at the invitation of 

 Governor Treh. Mr. Y. Chen, who is managing the 

 Educational Forestry Enterprise is also directing the 

 work of this company. 



The colonization work which Mr. Joseph Bailie (now 



A MAGNIFICENT AVENUE OF PINUS BUNGEANA 



A BEAUTIFUL SPECIES OF THE PINE FOUND ONLY IN CHINA 



Dating back to the Eighth Century, this wonderful pine stands at Chieh 

 T'ai Ssu, in the courtyard of a monastery, and the beautiful avenue of 

 these remarkable trees, seen at the left, is found at a temple-mausoleum 

 near Peking. This is said to be the finest avenue of these pines in China 

 and consequently in the world, as the species is found nowhere else. 



on colonization work in Manchuria) started on Purple 

 Mountain at the time of the last famine, in 191 2- 13, has 

 developed very largely into afforestation. This past 

 spring (1919), about 700,000 trees, mostly pines, were 

 planted out by the Colonization Association. A large 

 part of this famous old mountain is now planted with 

 trees, and is beginning to show "green" instead of its 

 centuries-old "brown." With its favorable location along 

 the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, where it is seen by 

 thousands of passengers, daily, and as the trees grow 

 larger, Purple Mountain will become increasingly import- 

 ant as a practical demonstration of what can be done with 

 many thousands of mountains similar to it. 



In addition to the teaching work of the College of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, extensive nurseries and a seed 

 department are being developed. Both nursery stock and 

 seeds are sold as cheaply as possible. Material was fur- 

 nished, this last spring, as noted above, for thirty-four 

 nurseries under Chinese direction and six under foreign 

 direction, the latter mostly in connection with mission 

 schools. In addition to seeds about 300,000 seedlings 



