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ndeed, as far as ye plants are ey a a marsh 
miaii 
its growt 
stance to come aye a dead tree, 
very pr 
e of life, noithanding 
Ss, W 
Left. ti itself i it 
ma: po Bic “an an pre of any kind is 
and even an Alder T 
WIEN ae - 
4 Ah (Aa 
a curiosity, 
makes a 
FIG. 61,—GROTESQUE GROUP OF OLD STUMPS AND CONJOINED ROOTS OF ALDER, BY THE SIDE OF 
T VER TAAF, NEAR PORT-Y-PRIDD, SOUTH WALES (28 FT. IN LENGTH). 
“Fic, SeMoneeEate HOLLOW ALDER NEAR SHRAWLEY, WORCESTER_ “(as FT, ROUND BASE), 
old 
“ Sinks to Fa grave with unpereeiyed pay 
and forms an int object to those whose love of 
the finn ' tribe de Wits with the enthusiasm of an 
ak Walton to linger out an 
, and waterfalls, 
| 
and m 45 feet round the base of 
bina It is, however, not e T that 
trunk is an amalgamation of 
It stands in ap vicinity of Shrawley, Worcestershire, 
asure | 
the hollow 
which i a Seer: to have measured 11 feet in girth in 
1818 ; late 
in either case of the supposed age trees. This 
same Haverland Alder is eT = in Morton’s 
Cyclopedia culture, and is there said to be 
65 feet in height and 12 feet in circumference, and is 
regarded he largest ne in England,” 
which it must now net to iia r large Alder 
y Mr. 
be. 
in his ‘ade 
Life, and this he coe to te be 45 feet in a with a 
irth of 12 feet, tly sou ree thriving, and the 
largest that he uy ~% pe seen o eard of, 
aving mentioned a n ron e writer's rather 
gre aet to the character mot the Alder, that it is an 
em piant. it is only fair to quote the more 
tvil t of int old Evelyn in his 
gossiping Pore poeme fall ol of research as itis, tbat 
“the shadow of wm vay) does ae and nourish th 
H: 
of 
infinitely refresh the su surat sapelier? ” As the Alder 
of such rrence, this simple recipe can 
Bo easily t fried, Edwin rem: FLS.) Gren Hill 
Summit, Woreester, Augu 
THE gna ghee cane 
arino ar 
FALSE THE ie uae adie a 
support to wildest notions of things, especially if 
they be fated Yves with a flourish of rhetoric and a 
semblance of reason. 
e history of Re gag is a repetition of the 
r like diseases. The hard and 
oe weighty os io at first “hi dden by ignorance, 
nd had to be jostled, by active investigators, dese 
Soar have either sunk out ‘of view or Pey washed 
away by the resistless forc any, of these 
pagopes are too aaa to be noliec, $a an I shall only 
briefly Y Seas ider thos z i L A or a 
the Phyllo seta Maaie Sisgovered. in the insect n 
known by that name, there has been a 
who have strenuously © contended that the insect is the 
and n are 
effect ot th EX the disease, As a rule, ie 
of this view are about 
pilesophical asi as that of the ‘taiag Ts cath ie SIA 
e 
ont Well, I t t know, m 
winter, replied.: 
he no aye a de ee m soan : 
prolonged submersion is an e 
have the hardihood to compare i to semina i in man ; 
to attribute it to “ divers cire pramene ‘‘ meteoro- 
Urb Da Q b 
this mon- 
thatha 
cation of certain cor uscular Psorosper rmiz, 
3 Id be atta 
o the presence of these bodies. ki ds not Nee 
thereto that he ea Tle n miscon- 
ts 
E] 
_ it isa ‘‘p 
has favoured 
