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CLIMATE. 
formerly belonged to America, Hispaniola and Panama, but 
now they are proverbially sickly. 
In New Zealand, disease has increased with the population, 
so likewise has it been with the vegetation, imported fruit 
trees, and plants ; the American blight is now worse there 
than in its parent country, from the want of sufficient wintry 
cold to keep it under and kill it ; blight has not only been 
introduced amongst all cruciferous plants, but even native 
vegetation suffers, it now attacks the karaka and ngaio trees, 
even the fern itself does not escape, these are collectively 
conspiring to change the climate and introduce a new order 
of things. 
LOLIGO VULGARIS. 
