Show trees in the forests of oregon washington montana and british columbia there Is a species of tree that has a continuous and copious dripping of pure clear water from the ends of its leaves and branches this extraordinary sight may be witnessed at all sea bons eons when the leaves are on and seems equally plentiful on clear bright days as on damp cloudy nights the tree is a species of fir and the weeping phenomenon Is attributed to A remarkable power of condensation peculiar to the leaves and bark of this species of evergreen in the island of ferro there are many of weeping trees but in this latter case the tears appear to be most abundant arben the relative humidity Is near the dew point |