Show HOW TREES ARE TWISTED Philadelphia Record The lover of the picturesque in na nature nature nature ture be he amateur or professional artist has always admired the gnarled and twisted trunks of ot old trees John Constable the famous English land landscape landscape landscape painter delighted In reproducing ing lag such old trees on canvas the sturdy oaks caks of his native land afford affording affording ing him fine models Equally suc sue successful successful at a slightly ater period were the two to French Fr painters Corot and Dma Diaz the first of C whom closely tot fol followed lowed towed in the footsteps of ot the English Englishman man manVan manVan manVan Van der del Broeck the Belgian geologist geologist geologist gist has come to the surprising con conclusion conclusion lusion e that the curious twists observed in I n many man tree trunks are produced by b the he th t earths e rotation In support of oC this theory t he points out o t that If It condi conditions conditions ions t of at growth were the cause the torsion t should follow toll ow tho the earths apparent apparent ent cut path But In hi at least out of o 1000 1 trees he lie las has found the exact re reverse reverse reverse verse to be the truth The twist of ot the tree trunk is usually u u ally to the left in the northern hemis bernie hemisphere hemisphere phere and to the right as with the clock lockin c In tho the southern hemisphere like lik the he t turn of the cyclonic storms and wa water tel ter t er vortices This difference is due to the earths s rotation Jean notes that It was dem dam demonstrated some years ago that the winds due ane UI to the earths motion blow steadily s at a season when vegetation is i s active and sensitive and a slight continuous c bending und and turning then would be likely to affect the tree per permanently permanently In this theory as the read reader er er e r will w l at once perceive he coincides with the view advanced by Van der del Broeck |