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of them, fully appreciating their immense value and importance. Japan has 

 many extensive manufactories and a remunerative trade with other nations, 

 and thus Japar is enabled to stand with equality before the nations of the 

 world. 



Now that Japan has the suzerainty over this Korean kingdom gives 

 promise of an improvement in the forest conditions, for Japan is one of the 

 foremost nations in their knowledge of forestry and the practical application 

 of the forester's art; and this, in time, will bring about the conditions which 

 result from a larger extension of the forest regions of the country. We know 



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that trees will grow rapidly in Korea, when planted. A missionary at Pyeng 

 Yang, to whom we sent various forest tree seeds last year, writes that his 

 Catalpa spcciosa grew four feet in height the first season, from seed. A much 

 larger quantity of seed was again sent this season. If there is a lesson in this 

 bit of history from the Far East, let the American people apply it before it 

 is too late. 



