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each. These 40 apple trees can lift 16 tons of water per day at the rate of four gallons per tree per hour. And, as trees go, apple trees are comparitively small.
The capacity of a tree to lift water depends on the size of its leaf area. My Red Maple must have close to a million leaves and I have no trouble believing this when they lie red with expiring fire on the ground in November.
It strains my imaginative powers to think of water daily traveling up the trunk of this tree in June. Each of my maple’s leaves is performing like a nozzle, sending an invisible spray of water into the air in the form of vapor. A tree is a kind of splendid foun
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