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the rest of the night here and finish this subject The Chair 

 learns that Mr. H. P. Marshall is not here and therefore cannot 

 serve on the Committee on Resolutions for New York. He will 

 ask Mr. Merkel to take his place. This Committee will meet at 

 the right of the Chair immediately after adjournment, only for 

 a minute or two. 



MR. THALHEIMER, of Reading, Pa.: Mr. Chairman: I 

 was listening to the gentleman from NeAV York. I think he has 

 the proper theory, that is, that the spores are spread by the 

 wind blowing them from place to place, and just according to 

 how the wind blows at a certain time. Take the Orlansa tree. 

 It is called Orlansa in Latin, Lancewood in English and Para- 

 dise tree in German. It is a tree like a sumac. There is prob- 

 ably one out of fifty that has a seed on it, like grapes, and at 

 certain times of the winds they are blown for thousands of feet. 

 Some may land between the mortar, or between the bricks, of 

 a building, arid a tree will grow there. If you go up Third street 

 from the ferry after you land there, you will see here and there 

 and everywhere in the front yards a nice little tree growing 

 there, if they have let it grow. You have all seen that, especially 

 in Washington. That seed is just like a leaf, and it is as sharp 

 as a knife, and the seed is encased in that leaf and that gets into 

 any crevice. I have had some taken out of my wall that grew 

 there, and they would grow to a good size. I have seen them 

 grow out of a brick pavement, where there was not any sweep- 

 ing or any work done around. 



THE CHAIRMAN: As President Drinker cannot serve on 

 the Committee on Resolutions, Mr. Green is asked to serve in 

 his place. 



We will now take a recess until nine o'clock to-morrow morn- 

 ing to meet again in this room. 



(Adjourned until Wednesday, February 21, 1912, at 9 o'clock 

 A. M.) 



