Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 210, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1920 — Natural Science Note. [ARTICLE]

Natural Science Note.

Percival was enjoying a Sunday ride, and as he had only recently learned the names and characteristics of a few trees, he observed closely all the trees he passed. A peach tree in caught his eye, next a honey locust with its many thorns, and then suddenly he straightened up and stared with astonished eyes at a gigantic tree trunk whose entire top was missing. •*Oh, mother, see,” he called excitedly, “there’s tree with no head on its neck.”