Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-05

against the sky assert an Immense differ
ence of character; one is sugar maple. the
otner white ash. A little study of the
environment shows what had happened a
long time ago.
Evidently an Old forest monarch had
stood beside the two trees when they We're
slender saplings, it has crowded them to-
gether in space where there was more
than the usual amount of sunlight; each
little tree had grown and inclined in the
same direction. they had rubbed against
each other, the bark was ruptured and
broken, at last the injured parts had mutu-
ally healed and the bark had in part grown
together; after that il was only a matter of
time and what had been once a ffteen-inch
scar developed to an eght-foot junction of
two entirely separate trees. A similar united
pair once grew beside the road leading from
Lake George to Ticonderoga, and the old
stage driver liked to stop his horses at
favorable view point draw his passengers
attention to the trees and add sentimental
ly. Then what God has jined together let
no man part asunder. Gi-git-up," Another
strange pair of naples in the White noun
tain woods grew upward separated at first
by ten inches or so, gradually lessened the
distance and finally merged into one trunk
which separated into leafy branches at the
top This was also caused by crowding,
with consequent abrasion of the bark and
healing together. In the vicinity of the
Flume House, White mountains, there is
spruce which, in its struggle for existence,
has started from the top of a boulder where
a
bit of earth, run its roots carefully down.
ward in the search for nutrition, and sue
ceeded in reaching mother earth with its
feet, where, solidity fixed, it proceeded to
embrace the whole rock with still other
roots whose source of nourishment is far
from evident. 1t is known as the tree grow
ing out of the rock.
An Early Accident.
Not far from the Profile House in recent
years there used to be a yellow birch over
hanging the road almost horizontally, but
instead of continuing in this unusual fash
ion, the stem suddenly took an abrupt and
sharp perpendicular turn, spreading out
its branches at normal angle. Undoubted-
ly when slender Sapling it got in the way
of some passing coach and the tip was
broken off; then with something akin to
instinct 1t sent forth a stout branch out of
harms way, hence the development of the
figure What a forest tree
will do to repair an injury it has suffered
is not easy to foretell. An elm in Campton, |
n. H, recently cut down. displayed within |
it's trunk the stump of small severed limb
together with the broken bit of Ratchet |
which has been used forty-five years be- |
fore to cut off the limb The tree had heal |
ed and the bark had completely grown over |
the injured part.
The unearthly groanS and creakS which |
are given out by two heavy limbs rubbing |
against each other in the forest when the |
vino is hlgh, are the indications OF an aHalr |
which will possibly end in some eccentricity |
Of tree growth before many years pass. |
A certain horizontal limb of an ash in |
the woods of Campton. n. H, ground away |
Al the. stem of a young pine tree until in |
time ii sawed it half way through; then |
ngn wind did the rest, the top of the pine |
fell. But the rest of the tree kept on grow
ng and eventually the two uppermost |
branches spread upward and swelled until |
the limb of the ash was pretty firmly held |
N between. Then the pine tree had its
revenge; it frightened its grip, the ashen
imb began to decay at the worn edges, be-
fore long it was dead as Mar1eys ghost
and more forest groanS are heard i'm
hat vicinity, 1t is TO be presumed that the
pine trees grip has effectually- quelled the