Article Title |
Curved Trunks Get Straight |
Type |
article |
Date |
1891-09-26 |
Paper |
Provo Daily Enquirer |
Page |
4 |
Creator |
Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901 |
Contributors |
Public ledger (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1836) |
OCR Text |
Show curved trunks get st the greatest manifestation of growth power that could be referred to is in the power of many trees to curve their trunks when partly blown over though they may have had them straight for a quarter of a century this curious subject is yet in infancy as a branch of study but so far the curving has been noticed more in connection with palms anil coniferous trees A trunk may be say twenty or thirty feet high ind a foot thick and as straight as a gun barrel should it from any cause become tilted in a few years the whole trunk from the ground to the summit will be found curved like a bow it was at one time thought that plants grew toward the light and we come to believe that as the twig is bent the tree a inclined but it now seems that grew is not here an active verb the mass of foliage that which was grown aa well as that which is growing is really lifted by borne power in nature so far entirely unknown to vegetable biology thomas meehan in philadelphia ledger |
Reference URL |
https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6nc74cf/1446480 |