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for many of the brooms grown on birch and beech, must be 

 of every day occurrence, and presumably are followed only 

 very exceptionally by any growths of a broom character. 

 The mite may be found easily in the leaf buds of these trees. 





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Witches' 



Brooms on the Bole of a Beech. 



The wearing away of the under part had been caused by cattle. 

 (From an original photograph given by Mr. Sydney Webb.) 



It is necessary only to cut open the bud and use a good lens, 

 when the mites may be seen in hundreds. 



It would appear tc be unusual for beeches to produce 

 good brooms. Thus they are seldom seen on the branches. 

 It is common, however, to see the bole of the beech low down 



