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 County in England and in other mining regions of the 

 British Isles, Belgium and other countries. 

 Augustine Henry in his "Forest, Woods and Trees in 

 Relation to Hygene" (London 1919) 7 discusses the 

 planting of pit mounds, spoil heaps and even shale 

 banks with such unfastidious species as the black 

 Italian poplar, gray alder, wych elm, various 'birches, 

 horn-beam, robinia pseudocacia, sitka spruce, larches, 

 etc.. The remarkable reclamation plantations of 

 Denmark and Prance have proved the practicability of 

 extensive afforestation even on the most unpromising 

 sites. Hence there would seem to be very scant chance 

 of upholding the argument that districts need 

 remain without forests on account of their present 

 barren state. Those who are familiar with the 

 dreadful condition of treeless desolation in mining 

 regions and the oppressive ugliness where the 

 haayu-hand of manufacture and industry has turned the 

 land for miles around into blaeke&ned wastes, can 

 understand what a green forest might mean to such a 

 district. An editorial in the Conversationist 

 (Feb. 1920) treats of the fact that industrial 

 establishments are beginning now to support local 

 con*er*ation work because they appreciate the importance 

 of good outpf-door recreation for the welfare of their 

 ttit*l«»^€**- • Andfmenely\it_isja matter of foresight, 

 and what in the future will be considered good 

 business policy on the part of the municipality, to 



