Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — Varying Movements of Leaves. [ARTICLE]

Varying Movements of Leaves.

Different species of trees move their leaves very differently;" so that one may sometimes tell by the motion of shadows on the ground, if he be too Indolent to look up, under what kind of tree he is sitting. On the tulip-tree (which has the finest name that eves tree had, making the very pronouncing of its name almost like the utterance of a strain of music— Llrldodendron tullpfera), on the tuliptree, the aspen, and on all native poplars, the leaves have an Intense Individualism. Each one moves to suit itself. Under the same wind one is trilling up and down, another is whirling, another slowly vibrating right and left, and others still, quieting themselves to sleep, as a mother gently pats her slumbering child; and each one intent upon a motion of its own. Sometimes other trees have single frisky leaves, but usually the oaks, maples, beeches, have community of motion. They are all acting together, or are all alike still.—Henry Ward Beecher. *