Show tree gone mad nature in the tropics left to her pelf Is harsh aggressive savage ravage looks as though she wanted to hang bang you with her dangling ropes or impale you on her tho thorns na or engulf you in her bor ranks of gigantic ferns her mood Is nover never as placid and sane as in the north thero there Is a tree in tho the hawaiian woods wooda that suggests a tree gone mad it Is called the hau treo tree it lies down squirms and wriggles all over tho the ground like a wounded snake it gets up and then takes to earth again now it wants to be a vine now it wants to be ba a treo tree it throws somersaults it makes itself 1 ato loops and rings it rolls it reach ait doubles upon itself altogether 9 I 1 Is s the craziest vegetable growth I 1 ever saw where you can got get it ul ui off the ground and let it perform it iti antics on abroad skeleton efon framework it makes a cover that no sunbeam cae cac penetrate and forms a living root roof tc the most re randas oi 01 banals as they are called in the ands that one can wish to sea deo from holidays in hawaii by join johr burroughs in the century |