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depend upon that of the tree, this potent charm is 

 not always successful, as may be gathered from the 

 fact that young trees have been met 

 with which never healed at all, and we 

 I' II H recollect one of these, of which the 

 accompanying wood - cut k a copy, 

 having been presented at a Conversa- 

 zione of the "Worcestershire Natural 

 History Society. The tree from whence 

 it was taken was of about ten years of 

 age. Selby says that an instance of 

 this use of the ash is " related by the 

 Rev. T. Bree, in the Magazine of 

 Natural History, where a ruptured 

 child was made to pass through the 

 chasm of a young ash-tree, split for 

 the purpose, in Warwickshire." 

 fjji These facts seem to point to the 

 acting upon such superstitions to within 

 a comparatively recent period, though 

 doubtless the drawing a child beneath 

 the stolon or shoot of a bramble that 

 has rooted at its extremity, and which 

 we have known to be v gravely recom- 

 mended by a wise (!) woman, would 

 be equally efficacious, and, upon the 

 whole, easier to perform. 



Evelyn further says that " the chemists exceedingly 

 commend the seed of the ash to be an admirable 

 remedy for the stone." "But," he adds, "whether 

 by the power of magic or nature, I determine not." 

 We would suggest that it was by the power its roots 

 possess of riving the natural rock. So stone-crop, 



