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A PEAE-TEEE PUZZLE. 
This year the “ feeder ” is the same size, on the near side 
as the branch it nourishes, i.e., about 2| inches thick ; but 
its continuation beyond the point of union is not more than 
f inch in diameter ; and a few inches further on it ends in a 
kind of clubbed head, from which spring several smaller 
twigs. On the upper part of the large bough also, at the 
point of union, is a knobby outgrowth with a rough surface. 
The accompanying print is made from a photograph which 
I took in April (1902). There was, unfortunately, no possi- 
bility, with the short time then at my disposal, of obtaining 
a nearer picture of the junction on the top of the wall. 
