OBLONG TREES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 290, 1 September 1920, Page 10

OBLONG TREES

ANY SHAPE BY BRUISES. The squaring of the circle was a secret recently discovered, at any rate m regain to trees 1)V the lively bcliool of l-orestry at Cambridge, who announced their ability to grow square trees, says the "Daily trees of commercial value have not vet been grown; but there exists in tho school a wonderful specimen of thu oblong tree, which has helped to the discovery of a real secret of growth '.'.lie trunk ill question is about 30!n. by Sin. Its .curious shape, was duo to no more than a little bruiso or two which persuaded it to grow like anything in one direction and not at all in any other. A similar bruise 011 another trunk made it grow ft round table top of beautifully-pnttc-rned wood, vastly harder than the normal tree, in spite of the fact that ii grew very much more quickly. . Other discoveries ami experiments pu>.~ that an artistic bruise, it may bo 110 luoro violent than strong pressure with tiie linger-tips, can make a tree expand in a desired direction, just as an insect, by n little juice or wcll-direeted puncture can create a gall or curl a leaf.