No section of the State seems to be particularly favored with freak trees. It would appear that hardwoods or broad leaf tree families take on malformations and curious twists and turns more generally than the softwoods or conifers.
SELECTING WINNERS, BIG PROBLEM
Choosing the winners was rather a difficult problem. A marked divergence of opinion developed on the part of the seven judges who made the selections. The committee was composed of a forest botanist and pathologist, a wood technologist, a landscape architect, an expert in woodcraft and nature study, a professional forester, a collector of photographs of freak trees and a newspaper man.
The pictures were judged from the viewpoint of their shape and form that seemed to be contrary to the nature of the species the freak trees represented.
Prizes were awarded as follows: $5.00 for the first prize, $4.00 for the second, $3.00 for the third, $2.00 for the fourth, and four prizes of $1.00 each.
PRIZE WINNERS
First Prize.
G. W. Gotham, 89 River Street, Cortland, N. Y.
Two elms, the larger tree appears to have absorbed the growth of the smaller tree.
Trunk of large tree is bigger above the graft.
Second Prize.
C. B. Cox, Adams Center, N. Y.
Elm, trunk runs along surface of earth in half circle 45 feet near Adams Center on North Harbor Road.