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I had occasion a few days ago to have a very tall Lombardy Pophir 

 taken down which stood in a very favourable position for estimatinLi; 

 the heii^'ht. The tree was ninety feet in length when laid on tlie ground, 

 i'lid I got the height to within six inches by means of tlie Dendrometer, 

 before the woodmen laid an axe to its roots. The day was rathei- 

 windy at the time, which rather disturl>ed the plummet; otherwise L 

 had no difliculty whatever in taking ol)servations fi'oni two 

 standpoints. 



W. B. H. 



THE GALE. 



Sm, — A great deal of damage has been done to the woodlands on 

 the Duncombe Park Estate by the gale which came on about ten 

 o'clock on Tuesday evening, the 11th December. In the Home 

 Terrace, Park, and woods adjoining, upwards of 150 13eecli, Elm, 

 Ash, Oak, &c., have been u})rooted ; whilst in the extensive 'Fir 

 I'lantations, fully 3,000 Scotch and Larch Trees, most of them of 

 large size, have succunilied. One remarkable effect of the storm is 

 seen in the great number of Scotch Fir snapped off' at from ten tn 

 twenty feet above the ground. Tlie wind was at its lieight between 

 two and four o'clock on Wednesday morning, and was blowing from 

 the north-west, but it fortunately moderated towards daybreak. I am 

 of opinion that it was quite as strong as either of the gales of 1880 or 

 1881, l)ut that as the leaves were off" the trees this time the woods — 

 iit any rate on this estate — have not suffered to the same extent as 

 they did on the previous occasions. We foresters can only hope tliat 

 the present low prices of timber will not be still further reduced by 

 so mucli timber being rushed into the market at once, 



AV. B. H. 



LEAF CANOPY AND PRUNING. 



SiE, — Under this article in your December issue, and in * Sup- 

 pression of Branches under Shade,' in that of October, by ' N. IST.,' 

 ^ire to be found a great amount of valuable and suggestive matter 

 well worthy of your readers' careful consideration ; but he makes 

 two remarks which appear so very striking that it might be interest- 

 ing to know something more al^out them. 



Firstly. He says : ' In some rare instances, under very dense 

 canopy, cases have occurred, particularly in Beech woods, where tlie 

 deposit of leaves, almost knee-deep, was so excessive as to become in- 

 jurious.' Will ' N. N.' be so good as to tell us how this injury was 



