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wind, which drowned the noise of everything else. There is another 

 curious circumstance worthy of notice, namely, that while the fury of the 

 storm spent itself at this particular spot, the tail of the blast appears to 

 have turned oft" almost at a right angle to the direction in which the trees 

 were blown, as tufts of straw from the stack and boughs and twigs of the 

 trees were found strewn in a straight line for nearly a quarter of a mile 

 towards the south-east. Egbert Baxter. 



Dalkeith Farh Forester, 



SCOTCH FIR. 



8iR, — At page 439 W. B. H. remarks on young Scots firs dying 

 suddenly after making average shoots the previous year. 



That is a very common occurrence among young Scots firs when 

 growing on old Scots fir woodland. 



The cause is a fungus ; and if he will pull up trees in the dying or 

 sickly state, he will find fungus attached to the roots. 



In moist ground there is no chance of trees being destroyed by fungus. 



W. M. C. 



