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HOW DID IT GROW TOGETHER? 



Photograph by Harry Staley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. 



see, of a limb that has grown from one 

 and gradually become engrafted on the 

 other. 



The twin oaks sent by Mr. Milo 

 Leon Norton, Bristol, Connecticut, are 

 extremely picturesque and for that 

 reason we publish them. The project- 

 ing branch at the left leads one to sus- 

 pect that possibly the limb has grown 

 across the other tree, or rather that the 

 tree at the left has grown around a 

 limb from the one at the right. It is 

 possible that all tree unions are form- 

 ed in this manner. Or perhaps some 

 "twins" may be the result of an aerial 

 root that has branched downward to 

 form another root and upward for 

 another trunk. A limb from an adja- 

 cent tree becomes engrafted into the 

 other tree, the projecting part is lost 

 so that not a vestige remains. The es- 

 pecial interest is in the fact that such 

 circumstantial evidence has been lost. 



Of the beautiful photograph of the 

 beech tree union, Mr. Grafton writes 

 as follows : 



"I am sending to you by this mail 

 the picture of two beech trees which 

 have been joined together by a limb 

 that has grown from one tree into the 

 other. One tree is eighteen inches in 

 diameter, the other twelve at the point 

 of union. The smallest diameter in the 

 limb which joins them is eight inches. 

 The distance from the ground to this 

 limb is ten feet. I have shown this pic- 

 ture to several old woodmen, who sa> 

 they never saw anything like it." 



Mr Grafton also sends a photograph 

 of a remarkable tree top braced as an 

 old man might steady himself with a 

 cane. Of this Mr. Grafton says : 



"This elm is on the road between 



A NATURAL U. 

 Photograph by Carl C. Donaldson, Richmond, Ohio. 



