Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 371
f a ball of wrinkled, moldyleather covered with a few leaves. A littleexamination showed that it was the beginningsof tiny apple-trees from the seeds in a shriv-eled apple. It is shown in the foreground ofthe accompanying illustration. The specimen you send is a woolly oak-gall,a very common gall… … Till WO. M.I.N IAlv NATURE AND CLUSTER OF TINY GALLS. SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 269 Philadelphia, Pa.Dear St. Nicholas: I send on to-day by mail acuriosity which was given to us by a little girl who hadcollected it. As will be seen, it has the appearance of aball of wool with what look like seeds…
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