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Fig. 63. — Old roots of Barberry, Garner. Photographed by F. E. Colburn, 1918. 



took possession in 1897 there were two hedges about 160 feet long. 

 Mr. Guttheil started to remove the hedge. At this time it probably 

 had escaped to the nearby woods. Mr. C. Bickel furnished me the 

 following information. "I was disappointed in finding the original 

 hedge had been cut down twelve years ago. What stands now has 

 come up from the old roots. I thought that the one large bush which 

 stood in the field by itself was a part of the original planting, but it 

 also had grown from a root of the original bush which had been 

 cut down about 15 years ago, I grubbed up several of these bushes 



