PRACTICAL ARBORICULTURE 139 
INFLUENCE OF FORESTS UPON A PEOPLE. 
With Illustrations from Korean Scenery. 
There are influences, which, to a greater or less degree, control the 
destinies of nations, but which, from their silent actions, are unrecognized 
as the cause of national decadence, or of national supremacy. The presence 
of a fair proportion of forests, or their entire absence, has often been the 
means of uplifting a national life, or, on the contrary, its degradation. 
A KOREAN INN, THE STABLES 
China is an illustration of a people, older than any other nation of the 
earth, more densely populated, ranking high in education, but of a character 
peculiar to herself, boasting of a civilization which antedates all other history ; 
yet China is a country without forests, and her millions of people are unable 
