Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — Electricity and Tree Life. [ARTICLE]

Electricity and Tree Life.

An extraordinary phenomenon has ben noticed with regard to the chest* nut trees in the Avenue Lonis, Brussels, since the installatiop of the electric trams. Their foliage begins to turn brown and drop early in August, to bud, and even to blossom, again in October. The trees pn the opposite side to the tramway behave like ordinary trees, for they lose their foliage in the late autumn and do not put forth fresh blossqjns until the spring. Botanjsts are inclined to believe that the 'cause of this-singular state of tilings is due to the electrical current which passes underground acting upon the roots of the trees, which are otherwise quite healthy.