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of them, fully appreciating their immense value and importance. Japan has 
many extensive manutactories and a remunerative trade with other nations, 
and thus Japan 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 countrv. We know 
THE WATER GATE, SEOUL, KOREA. 
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 speciosa 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. 
