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Lord Walsingham “hears of similar injury and extensive 
destruction of Lombardy Poplars on his property in Yorkshire and 
in Cambridgeshire.” 
But Mr. Du Port says : “At Oxford, among the college gardens, 
it is the exception to find a damaged tree.” 
Mr. C. B. Plowright: “The Lombardy Poplars in the West of 
England do not seem to be injured at all.” 
And Mr. Dowell writes: “Travelling from Norfolk to North 
Wales in the end of June, through the midland counties, I noticed 
that the Lombardy Poplars were less and less injured the further I 
went west. In Wales they were not hurt.” 
Prom these answers it appears that the injury is greatest in 
Eastern and East Midland England, extending as far north as 
Yorkshire, but that it grows less (so far as England is concerned) 
ill proportion as we travel westward, until in Wales the trees 
“were not hurt” (Mr. Dowell), and in the West of England they 
“do not seem to be injured at all” (Mr. Plowright) j and it 
is curious how this gradation of injury seems to coincide (possibly 
fortuitously) to a certain extent with the frost of the 7th December, 
1879, when there was at Cambridge, Nottingham, and Stockton 
a minimum temperature of — 1 (one degree below zero) ; at Cardington 
in Bedfordshire, + 2 ; Leicester, + 4 ; Hull, + 7 ; Oxford, 1 1 ; 
Greenwich, Marlborough, and Wolverhampton, 13 ; Bournemouth, 
IG; Bath, 18; Stonyhurst, 20; Plymouth, 21; Liverpool, 22; 
Barnstaple and Torquay, 27 ; and Llandudno, 28. Of course, I 
am far from asserting that it was this frost alone which did all the 
mischief ; but it is a strange coincidence, that the injury should, to 
so great an extent, coincide with the intensity of the cold of that the 
coldest day of the first of the two winters we have been considering, 
when the seed of the mortality of the seasons following seems to 
have been sown. 
