Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — TWIN TREES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TWIN TREES.

A Remarkab e Freak of Nature in New Jersey. Ocean City, N. J., boasts of a natural wonder, almost as unique as our continent is broad. This freak of nature consists of twin trees, or rather trees united by a ligature, like the celebrated Siamese twins were joined together in life.

With the exception of these twins of Ocean City, only one other pair like them are known the world over. The other pair were recently discovered in California and are of much larger size than those which grow here. The seashore twins are the “Holly Tree.” They are about thirty feet in height and six inches in diameter. At four and a half feet from the ground they are joined by a branch growing from one tree into the other. This branch is two inches through the middle, and grows larger as it approaches the trunks of both trees, which are fifteen inches apart from each other. This freak in living wood is a puzzle to the botanist and scientist almost as great as the Siamese twins in their day were to the anatomist and .physiologist.

OCEAN CITY’S SIAMESE TREES.