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being injured more or less, all tlie way from “fatally,” to a state 
from wliicli tliey may possibly recover should more favourable 
seasons bo at hand. 
(2) Is the injury more on one side than another, and if so, 
wii ich side ? 
To this question Messrs. Ling, Amyot, Du Port, Purdy, and 
Candler, reply in the negative. 
jMr. Prere writes: “I can see no greater amount of injury on 
one side than the other. A tree most injured on the east side may 
be standing next in the row to one where the west side has suffered 
most.” 
And Dr. Goodacrc says : “ jSlany of the trees which have partly 
recovered have done so more on one si lo thair another, but no rule 
seems to have been followed as to Avhich side.” 
On the other hand, Mr. Dodman says: “The trees appear to 
bo injured more on the north side.” 
Mr. DoAvell : “The damage showed itself most in the tops of the 
trees, generally on the north and east sides.” 
Mr. T. L. Peed : “ Those which show signs of life, are almost all 
that I have seen, injured from the north-east.” 
Dr. Lowe : “I have found hitherto, Avithout scarcely an exception, 
that the injury is on the north side .... Of those AA'hich still 
shoAV signs of life, it is on the south side only.” 
Lord Walsingham says : “ Greatest injury on north side Avhere 
any distinction.” 
So far as I have myself observed, I quite agree Avith Mr. Prere 
and Dr. Goodacre, and I do not see that Ave have sufficient evidence 
to attribute the damage to any particular Avind, or to localize it as 
coming from any particular quarter. 
(3) Was there any special came of injury, such as insects, 
besides the cold of last lointer? 
To this question all our correspondents but one answer “ No ” 
as to insects. Mr. Ling alone ansAvers “Yes” generally, and AAuth- 
out explanation. 
Lord Walsingham says : “ There is no insect, so far as I am aware, 
Avhich could by any possibility produce in one season the cifects 
Avhicli AA'o see.” 
