Piute Chieftain | 1917-01-25 | Page 8 | How Trees Become Freaks

PW TREES BECOME FREAKS many grotesque shapes it Is now 1 kiwan are the result of heavy snows 4 to t the person who ho Is in not V versed eased in forest lo 10 lore 1 re the grotesquely bent tree tire are to he be found in n almost alt all 1 woods are mystifying an and d wonder 1 s aiton often doused as ito to the cause hays 0 y monthly i fores foresters t ay era till in tecc the case ns q of trees in woun country try and other sections of 0 snow iche where j the snowfall la Is heavy tho ave eight of s snow owis ow Is responsible n ninny lu instances stance s for the queer they assume when a tree Is ng the weight of that falls on its often of ten bends the trunk over until it Is flattened to the ground sometimes ltv it Is s buried under un derix six or eight feet of snow and held pi that at position so I 1 fiig long tl that t when ft lion warm comes the trao falls to spring afi alc into its iti normaa normal 1 po position atlon I 1 the sl sun causes the tip af of the oung tree to turn upward and if f it it manages to w withstand I 1 tho the weight of ML hie snow of the next winter bilidt por tl koh h of the tree will as a general rule continue to grow glow in a way gerpin li bends bendi and other odd shapes hapek resit lt A tree stands on the top of 1 hill johnstown pa about aur nille 9 irom from toiv taa it is 13 TL a sugar maple ahou one hundred years old which has prolonged its 16 own bimby llod by grafting it 11 brah branch ch into a flinch lounger er tree arce