Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Forest of Dwarf Trees. [ARTICLE]

Forest of Dwarf Trees.

gTpe rnidgat of whole tree family to «be Greenland Mjcfc, It Is a perfect tvfjs in every sense Of that term and •tea ttfl allotted number of years, fjpoxn <5 to 180, Just aa other species of the birch family do, although Its t, under the pjoet favorable oonis, seldom exceeds ten Inches, e bluffs of the east and southeast COOst of Greenland ft* - ® covered with ♦tWokets” of this diminutive species of plant, and In many places where soli is uncommonly poor and frozen 0 eight to ten months a year a “fop these tress will flourish sq» half ary without growing to a height lng four Inches.

93ms Mary Who Had a Little Lamb. hfe*. Mary Tyler, the original heroine of the familiar poem, “Mary ffM a littlfi Lamb,” resided at Somerville, Mass., until her death, which occurred pot Jong ago. The Incident of the net lamb following hey to school actually OOWrrcd in her Childhood, dust os qs lold In the jingle, ted was afterward Immortalized by g youth who was than 566 of the school Children. As an Old feunan Mrs. Trior was always proud w show bits or tfee famous “fleece as tehne as snow,” fi| various stages *f •Motion, from the saw woolmtc a tedt dress fabric.