Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1875 — Curious Trees. [ARTICLE]

Curious Trees.

Just beyond the Darbonne or Caleasieu River, in the parish of Caleasieu, is a white oak tree about two and a half feet in diameter. There are no branches for twenty-five or thirty feet up. About twelve or fifteen feet up a pine limb dr top part of a pine tree, six or eight inches in diameter and”twelve or sixteen feet long, runs at right angles through the center of the tree, sticking out about the same distance on either side. It tapers a little to one end, where are two or three knots, giving it the appearance of a tree-top. The oak, where it passes through, is grown closely around it. The pine is rich in turpentine and will not decay. There is no fork or hollow! in the oak, but it has the appearance as if a hole had been made and the pine stuck through, after which the oak • closed on it by growth. The question is, how did the pine get through the oak or the oak around the pinet In Mallet woods there is another -white oak of considerable size that divides into two prongs about one and a half feet from the ground, which, after running up like a pair of bow-legs about fifteen feet, unite in one round, compact stem. The prongs are about one and a half feet in diameter, and where they unite above the tree is larger than either of them, but smaller than both together. A man can walk between the two prongs and the tree stands on a land boundary line. Forked trees are very common, but the question here is, how did the two prongs unite so perfectly into one stem above? Comparing the two women together, the Milwaukee News Bays that “ Mrs Grant is not so handsome a woman as Anna Dickinson, but she can get up a better boiled dinner than Anna can.”