Question

I had never seen, had scarcely imagined, human beings undertaking such a work as the deliberate replanting of an entire forest area with different kinds of trees. Yet this seemed to them the simplest common sense, like a man's plowing up an inferior lawn and reseeding it. Now every tree bore fruit-edible fruit, that is. In the case of one tree, in which they took especial pride, it had originally no fruit at all-that is, none humanly edible-yet was so beautiful that they wished to keep it. For nine hundred years they had experimented, and now showed us this particularly lovely graceful tree,

Answer 1

with a profuse crop of nutritious seeds.

They had early decided that trees were the best food plants, requiring far less labor in tilling the soil, and bearing a larger amount of food for the same ground space; also doing much to preserve and enrich the soil.

Answer 2

Which of the following best shows how committed the people of Herland were to the tree project?
Answer

The project took over nine hundred years.

The tree now bore fruit.

The tree required less labor.

A tree produces food efficiently.

Answer 3

Either C or D?

Answer 4

I would think A. because the people were so comitted in this project that they stuck with it for 900 years!

Answer 5

over 900*