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tlioii feet Ampelopsis incuspulaia, the smaller Virginian Creeper. 
He says : “ I have several plants in niy own ground, draping the 
boles of living trees, Avhich at the present moment are extremely 
beautiful in their lively of deep carmine.” 
At about the same time as our Secretary issued his circular, 
Mr. Southwell wrote to both the ‘Field’ and ‘Land and V^ater,’ 
asking for information as to the extent of injury beyond the 
limits ot the county. Iheso letters produced many replies, 
some published in the same newspapers, and others addressed 
l>iivatoly to IMr. Southwell, who has kindly allowed me the use 
of them. 
In ‘Land and Water,’ Oct. 15th, 1881, Mr. II. P. Malet, 
wiiting from blorcnco, says: “Much damage was done to many 
kinds of trees in I ranee, Switzerland, and Germany, in the spring 
ot 1880.” Iho main destruction over many hundreds of square 
miles was done in the spring of 1880. 
In tlio ‘ Field ’ of the same date : “ Twenty miles round York, 
tho death or severe injury of Lombardy Poplars is almost universal.’ 
I have been unable to learn any satisfactory explanation of this 
result, except that the three past winters and sunless summers have 
been quite exceptional. (G. 0.)” “Tho area of destruction seems to 
extend over the whole of the eastern and east midland counties of 
Lngland. (P.P. W.)” And tho editor sums up by saying that “ tho 
extensive destruction of tho Lombardy Poplar is corroborated in 
letters from many correspondents.” 
In replies privately sent, IMr. W. Broum writes : “ Tho Poplars 
throughout tlie county of Wilts have suffered very much.” 
i\Ir. J. M. C. ^Montagu : “ Most of tho Lombardy Poplars in 
V est Dorset u’ero killed or seriously injured last winter.” 
IMr. Loss ^lahou writes from Monkstown near Dublin : “ All 
such trees in this neighbourhood have been injured by frost, most 
of them killed outright. I noticed this early in 1880 when they 
should have come into leaf, so tho frosts of 1879 were severe enoucdi 
to affect them.” ° 
Mr. G. J. ]\Iather finds “ near Doncaster all are more or less 
killed. ” 
And in replies to our Secretary’s circular, wo find from IMr. Frere : 
I should say tho Poplars in Leicestershire are injured in about the 
same degree as those in our own county.” 
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