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It may be regretted, but I think it must be admitted, that 

 we are at present entirely without a remedy. The mischief 

 is done before it becomes patent ; the premature falling of a 

 leaf is often the only symptom that a tree is doomed, and 

 when that symptom is exhibited the case is hopeless. The 

 decorative remedy of whitewash is a sweet thing in orchard 

 scenery, and is greatly favoured and recommended by the 

 pomologist; but it certainly has no effect for good or for evil 

 on the decorated tree beyond that of gratifying the eye, 

 which is scarcely the object desired by the whitewasher. 





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But although man in his ignorance can provide no remedy 

 of his own, he may yet, should he so incline, avail himself of 

 Nature's remedy ; he might at any rate allow that remedy to 

 take its own course, and not interfere with its operation. 

 When lately in Herefordshire I was particularly struck with 

 the beauty and the number of green woodpeckers crucified 

 and preserved in what is called the Keeper's Museum ; the 

 barn doors and trunks of trees are quite gay with the parrot- 

 like plumage of this gorgeous bird. On one occasion, while 

 examining a museum of this kind, a keeper, with botli 



