Deseret Evening News | 1903-01-17 | Page 23 | A Twin Tree

A TWIN TREE There Is 18 a 11 remarkable freak of ot no two tUle growing In the province of at Loire southern France l In the shop shape of ot a n twin tree toe This ThU curiosity ot of two healthy twos into some twenty feet feel high with brilliant foliage the top ton one OM ac actually a growing upon the lower A cavIty cavity cavIty ity was nB formed In the upp upper r trunk of the bottom tree tr which was IS filled with decaying bark and the tho accumulated M w r rf f r 1 I du dust duet t and debris of ot years ears This became a 11 sort of ot bed from which sprang the and end In III time produced the upper tree tiN t Contrary to all the th laws of ot hortt culture the life lICe of ot the tree has hn not been Injured In the least by Us Its porn parn she companion on the top The fhe top tree trot In Is I a rim nor lm and the peasants peasant In the mu make occasional oC pilgrim pilgrimages ages K to thin tree Ir as they malt make n a sort Bort of tea front trO front 1 tho the buds bud of ot the lime ilme which they any on l account tt of ot Its It a peculiar growth and situation has line mysterious end and powers pors It If Imbibed