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J^fr. 1’. Xorgiito says: ‘’All the Lombardy Poplars at liuntoii 
sociii to have been dead for two years or more. At Clreat 
Witcliingham, Iialf appear dead, and tlie rest nearly dead, but with 
a few green twigs left.” 
Lr. Loodacre (Wilby) says : “ Nearly all about here arc more or 
less injured and many apparently are quite dead.” 
Mr. (Jandler writes : “ In the neighbouring parishes of Alburgh, 
"W eybread, Wingfield, Mendliam, Needham, Jiushall, and Syleham, 
I have noted carefully the condition of 112 trees. Of these, 30 
ate quite dead, 07 are much injured, and only 9 are apparently in 
a healthy condition.” 
lo these replies, I may add, that of a row of twelve at North 
Walshain, young and vigorous trees, every one ajipears to be dead. 
Lut Mr. Dodman (iitchwell) considers “ the aged trees in many 
instances to have sustained injury, although not more so in the last 
than in the previous winter, in one or two instances so much so as 
to he past recovery;” ami a 'piestion arises, if we take this opinion 
in connection with I\[r. F, Norgate’s stixtement, “that all the 
I-oi.iibardy 1 oplars at lUinton seem to have been dead two years or 
more, ’ and Mr. Ilumfrey Mason’s statement, “that about the month 
of August last year, ISSO, his gardener one morning called to his 
notice how bad the Poplars were looking, their leaves hilling off as 
after a frost, and from this they never seemed to have recovered ; ” 
and also a statement from a Dublin correspondent (to be alluded to 
further on), that the Poplars in his neighbourhood siifrered severely 
in the winter of 1879 — SO; whether the injury this year is not 
really as much due to the winter before last, as to last winter. 
We shall return to this branch of the subject again, in considering 
the replies to the fourth question. 
io recapitulate — the daimige is variously estimated at from 10 
per cent (Mr. Frcre), to 90 per cent (^[r. Ling and Mr. Du I’ort), 
and “all” (Sir Mhlloughby J ones), killed. Lut of those who go most 
carefully into detail, Lord Walsingham gives “ 4 out of 7” (=57 
per cent), i\[r. Amyot “a full third” (say 35 per cent), and Mr. 
Candler’s careful analysis of 1 12 trees gives 36 (=32 per cent) killed. 
I believe we shall not overstate the damage in assuming that, at 
1 least, half the Lombardy Poplars in the county iverc dead in 1881, 
and that verif feic (“9 in 112” [Mr. Candler], “one-eighth” [Mr. 
Purdy], “5 per cent” [Mr. Du Port]), escaped injury; the remainder 
