Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1918 — Air Gliders. [ARTICLE]

Air Gliders.

No one knows how long ago ambitious navigators learned to hitch their frail barks to the breeze to carry their cargoes, but it is certain that in the very ages the pines and other tall trees learned to take advantage of the wind In like manner, as a means of spreading their seeds, writes Herbert W. Faulkner in his book, “Mysteries of the Flowers.” So each seed was built like a biplane or air glider. We have seen them floating down from maple trees and twirling as they slowly fell. The lightest breeze can carry them a long way ere they reach the ground. We find similar seed sowing practiced by the elm, ash, birch, hornbeam, linden and catalpa. ’