Tree Life Curiosities.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 March 1910, Page 4

Tree Life Curiosities.

Among the curiosities of tree life is the sofar, or whistlinig tree, of Nubia . When the winds blow over this tree it gives out flute-like sounds, playing away to the wilderness for hours at a time, strange, weird melodies. It is the spirit of tho dead singing among the branches, the natives say, but the scientific white man says that the sounds are due to a myriad of small holes which an insect bores in the spines of the branches. The weeping tree of the Canary Islands is another arboreal freak. This tree in the dryest weather will rain down showers from its leaves, and the natives gather up the water from the pool formed at the foot of the trunk and find it pure and fresh. The tree exudes the water from innumerable pores at the base of the leaves.—London Globe.