Big Growth Of A Shrub

Big Growth of a Shrub.

lt is perfectly amazing to notice carefully how much an ordinary shrub will grow in a single summer. A silver fir, 2 1/2 feet high, was lately carefully measured. It had put forth, since early spring, 585 new shoots, carrying from one-half to six inches each. The average was two inches, equaling altogether 98 feet. The total number of leaves on these shoots was 39,814. Taking the aggregate of the length of each shoot, this very small tree has in six months put on a growth which, if laid In a line, would extend considerably over half a mile.