Another great mystery, in the who cares department, has to do with the movement of water up through the trunk of a tree. Some years ago I had the opportunity to observe the results of an experiment that a forestry class was doing concerning the movement of water through trees. They located a root, surrounded it with a contained of dye and after the dye was make its appearance in the leaves, they cut the tree down and cut it up into sections around two feet in length. The class discovered that the dye went up the tree in a spiral clockwise manner.

ALSO IN THE TREE DEPARTMENT: The bark of eastern white cedar trees is rather stringy. The next time you are in a cedar swamp check it out. The bark spirals in a clockwise manner. Now you know the rest of the story.

Cap't Bob