Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1913 — Grow Trees From Top Down. [ARTICLE]

Grow Trees From Top Down.

A foreign railway company has solved the plan of getting good shade trees in a short time, thought they may be small. The trees are so arranged that after two years’ time they will give as much shade as trees in the ordinary way of Getting out would give that are 15 or 20 years old. The company gets a small elm tree, preferably, digging this, roots and all, from the ground. The tree then is set, the top part being set into the ground and the roots are left in the air. The tree then grows, forms roots on what originally was the top of the tree, and the original roots that now take the place of the branches begin to leaf out and form a complete foliage very quickly. Beautiful specimens of such inverted trees are to be seen by the fountains in Kensington gardens, London.