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for fifty rods ahead. In many cases a branch was killed, while 
another on the same tree, still nearer to the wire, was alive 
I noted the following kinds of trees as the ones principally 
affected, viz: White pine, white oak, red oak, white maple, rock 
maple, white birch and poplar. At one point the wire passed 
rough several apple trees, but I could see no traces of dead 
leaves there—F, E. L. Beal, Fitchburg, Mass. 
An Instance OF ĪNDIVIDUAL VARIATION.—Some three or four 
years ago I noticed in the NATURALIST the variation of the 
hickory trees in this vicinity as to the times of ripening their 
leaves. The facts then set forth were simply that upon some 
trees the leaves were ripe and withered into ashen-gray, while 
upon others they remained green until killed by the hard frosts 
of middle or late autumn. Others ripened all along between 
these extremes, 
_ This spring I noticed the same differences: in the times of put- 
ting forth their leaves. Upon some trees the leaves were fully 
one-third grown, while upon others, not more than a yard distant, 
the buds were still dormant. It was very curious to notice the 
changes from day to day, when 
“ Young leaflets deepened into greenness, 
And spread to the coming heat.’”? 
Scarcely any two of the trees along my road of a mile and a 
half into town seemed to be putting forth their leaves exactly 
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se Lower California (Parry)——In a late bulletin of the Agri- 
ei College of Michigan, Professor Beal publishes an inter- 
Series of replies to questions about grasses———We note 
