ARTICHOKE GALLS. 



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semble currants in size, shape, and mode of growth, 

 that they have been named " currant galls." 



Among the species of gall to which our oaks are 

 subject, there are some which grow at the end of 

 the twig, as for instance, that called the artichoke- 



gall, which comes the nearest in appearance to the 

 nut-gall of commerce, since it is, in common with 

 that nut, an irregular development, not of the 

 leaf or flower, but of the bud. The artichoke-gall 



