. St. Nicholas [serial]. A NEARER VIEW OF THE TREE ON THE TOWER. the ground. The tree has been growing thirty-five years; it is about fifteen feet high, and four inches in diameter. Formerly there were fourtrees on this tower. The largest was removed in1887, because its roots had begun to spread apartthe stone blocks about the base. The other twodied later, during an intensely hot, dry remaining tree has made a slow but steadygrowth, and its healthy condition indicates thatit will live for many years. On the island of Trinidad is to be seen a sturdytree growing out of a brick chimne
. St. Nicholas [serial]. A NEARER VIEW OF THE TREE ON THE TOWER. the ground. The tree has been growing thirty-five years; it is about fifteen feet high, and four inches in diameter. Formerly there were fourtrees on this tower. The largest was removed in1887, because its roots had begun to spread apartthe stone blocks about the base. The other twodied later, during an intensely hot, dry remaining tree has made a slow but steadygrowth, and its healthy condition indicates thatit will live for many years. On the island of Trinidad is to be seen a sturdytree growing out of a brick chimney which be-longed at one time to an old sugar-mill, locatedat this point. The building has long since beenreduced to ruins and is overgrown with vegeta-tion. The more solidly built chimney has re-mained intact, and up through its center one ofthe quick-growing trees of the tropics has. A ; GUOWINC; OUT OV THE TGI OF A sprung, spreading its branches out of the top ofit as shown in our picture, evidently thrivingon the special allowance of air and sunshinewhich its lofty and isolated position gives it. In the central part of Florida, near Ft. Pierce,in the heart of a pine forest, stands an old deadpine-tree, absolutely devoid of foliage. Lodgedin a fork of this pine, fifty feet above ground,is a rubber-tree, that has sent a single root toearth, fifty feet below; and from this it receives I9I5-] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 79
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