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Isleworth, sent two brandies of a Nelis d'Hiver Pear-tree, 

 attacked by a new blight called Eriosoma Pyri, which has 

 been thus described and figured in the ' Gardener's Chro- 

 nicle' for the 1st of December : — " The accompanying figure 

 is a representation of one of the most remarkable instances 

 of the effects of the attacks of insects upon vegetable struc- 

 tures which has ever fallen under our notice. It is a portion 

 of a branch of a Nelis d'Hiver Pear, grown against a wall 

 in the garden of Mr. Wilmot, of Isleworth. The branch 

 sent appears to be three years old, and was evidently once 

 in fine healthy growth, but the shoots are now very gene- 

 rally covered, on the side n> xt the wall, and in some parts 

 even all round, with a vast number of woody knobs united 



into solid masses, so that the portion of the branch now 

 before us weighs about half a pound. It is not a little 



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