A writer in the Gardeners' Monthly for May says that the Baobab does not get its growth in less than 800 years. But J. D. Hooker says "it is a very fast growing and short-lived tree." Your correspondent also speaks of the size of the great Dragon tree of Teneriffe, " as it is now." As long ago as 1872 the newspapers reported that famous tree as having fallen.

A late number of the Century (April, 1885, p. 838) speaks of a tree trunk in Washington Territory, formed by the union of a fir and a cedar.

In my boyhood I knew of a great oak tree which had a large branch that returned to its parent trunk and was blended with it. I suspect that it was an artificial arrangement, for the tree stood near an old house. May, 1885.

[Two trees of different species, starting into life in close position will in time appear united, by the trunk of the stronger enfolding the weaker. It grows around the slower grower. It is not a case of grafting, as we understand it. If by any means the roots of the weaker were severed, the tree would probably die, as it would also probably when wholly enclosed, so that there was no room for the expansion of its own woody circles. Such is the belief of those who have made physiology a close study. It is not thought one tree draws any support from the other. It might get some moisture.

- Ed. G. M].