| Show TREE IS WELL NAMED product of ceylon deserves its sobriquet umbrella the umbrella tree la Is found in ceylon in greater profusion than anywhere else in the world As a matter of scientific fact these trees grow to their greatest height and attain to their greatest alzo in very wet rain countries this growth Is due to the fact that the tree requires a great deal of moisture and not because it 1 19 needed to keep heep off the rain A remarkably mar marh kably ably alno specimen of the urn um brella tree Is shonn herewith As a matter of fact this tree forms forras so complete an umbrella that a number of people might take shelter under its spreading branches from the rain the foliage Is besides as a rule so thick thich that the umbrella tree serves to keep I 1 off the rain almost perfectly even in I 1 a heavy shower new york herald 1 |
