Show rocks bocka rent 11 t by ring growing trees tre there is a great natural curiosity at garfield cottage ju mile wy saya a bethlehem N H correspondent of the new haven palladium um in the side yard is an enormous boulder bowlder which must weigh eight tons or more it has been split by bv a live white birch tree which started life in a tiny cleft of this immense rock sent down clown its shoots into the earth little by little widened the cleft until nearly thirty years ago came the split and one third of the bowlder boulder was pushed off by the tree now of good size but strangely twisted as to limbs and trunk in the same yard are four smaller trees in various stages of growth some having already started cracks in their rocky homes |