THE AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION. 



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Mom the little fat worm to the soft, fully 

 developed bee just before it comes out 

 to maturity as it comes out. I wish I 

 had known how to preserve them. 



I also found a tomato worm covered 

 with little cocoons and also some of the 

 tiny ichneumon flies that come out of 

 them. 



CURIOUS ROOT GROWTH. 



I want to ask you about a very curious 

 tree 1 saw in Sugar Hill, New Hamp- 

 shire. It was a yellow birch and was 

 growing against a large boulder. At the 



bottom there seemed to he two distinct 

 trees; as far as 1 could see there was no 



over the rock, leaning against its face 

 and still keeping their distance apart un- 

 til they reached the top of the rock where 

 they turned towards each other, met and 

 formed one tree! Now they are not 

 twisted together and they do not singly 

 grow up close against each other, hut 

 they blend together and form one per- 

 fect tree! There is no sign of a crevice 

 between them, the trunk is round and 

 smooth and the bark unbroken. 



Xow how is this possible? If there 

 are two trees in the first place, how can 

 they form one tree without a sign of a 

 crack between them; and if it should be 

 all one tree, why should it grow together 





Photograph of the tree that probably started in leaf mold on top of the rock. The 

 roots have become trunk like. 

 Photograph by L. S. Nickerson, Sugar Hill, N. H. 



connection whatever between the roots 

 or the two trunks which came out of the 

 ground at fully a yard's distance from 

 each other. 



These two trunks, each in itself a per- 

 fect tree trunk with no sign of a scar 

 as if they had been split apart, grew up 



again after having the parts so widely 

 separated? The tree is called "The 

 Struggle for Life" and is one of the 

 sights of the place. 



Dorothy A. Baldwin, 



Corresponding Member No. 2030. 



