Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1893-10-06
THE TREE ON THE TOWER.

The front wall of the First Univer-
salist Church in Utica is constructed |
of sandstone and Trenton limestone,
and was built about forty years ago.
At the two angles OF the facade there
are two Norman turrets IS feet high,
surmounted with the usual notched
battlements. Just below these are
plain, flat cornices projecting from the
main walls about twenty inchss, and
noJ over eighteen inches in thickness.
On the fiat top of one of these ledges,
and from a joint in the masonry not
more than three-fourths of an inch
wide, there has been growing, for near
ly thirty years, a mountain, ash or
Scotch "rowan tree" which is now
l6 feet high and about7 or feet across
the expansion of the branches, Of
which there are SO many and so dense
that they make the tree appear BUSH
like. The ash is perfectly healthy
and for several years past has borne
crops Of scarlet berries. As already
stated, the joint on the ledge from
which the tree grows is not more than
three-quarters of an inch wide. The
hole of the main stem, just Immediate
Fly above the service, is inches in di-
ameter. There is no accumulation Of
matter on the ledge TO form a coil or
retain any moisture.
OF course the tree is not as large as
one of the same age would be growing
the same length of time in good soil
on the ground; but the wonder is how
does the plant, growing out of that
dry-mortared chink, ever sustain life,
especially during the summer feryors,
up there as ii, is ON q ledge forty feet
above the street, and not on crum-
bling ruin, but ou a dry, solid stone
coruice, attached to a close-jointed
dimention stone, well-built tower wall.
Then, too, the question may be asked
of the scientific: "How do the radicles
of that plant find the soluable potash
and phosphoric acid so indispensable
to its very existance? And from
whence docs it get the IMMORAL ele-
ments which enter into the compost
tion of all arboreal growth?"
Is there not here also evidence that
our plant takes its absolutely neces-
sary nitrogen in the same manner as
it does its carbon, i. G., through its
foliage and from the air only? For
there can be but little, if any, decom-
posed mortar in the chnks below the
plant on that projecting cornice of
not more than eighteen inches in
thickness, into the small interstices
between the stones Of which the super
fetal routs of our plant can penetrate.
We are taught that in such a dry
pabulum devoid Of vegetable matter
there can be no bacterial nitriacation.
at any rate, on mere ledge Of mason
ry at that altitude is growing healthy
exotic tree, rich in foliage and fruit,
defylng zero weather in winter, tropi-
ical heats in summer, and never droop-
ing during the most distressing
droughts.
If the care of the hair were made a
part Of ladys education, we should
not see so many gray heads, and the
use of Halls Hair ReneweF wollld be
unnecessary.
At a mass meeting of citizens OF
Graham county held at Solomonyillc
Saturday strong resolutions against
the abandonment of Fort Bowie as a
military port were passed. This is the
most important fort in the territory,
and if abandoned would leave many
settlers at the mercy of renegade In.
+dians. q copy Of the resolutions wa.
ordered sent to Washington.
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