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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 355

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Jackson, New Hampshire, and it is such a beautifulplace! The leaf I am sending you with the queer humpson it is like a great many we saw there on different trees,some on wild cherry and some on other trees. I supposethey must be the work of some insect, but how can theyform such large nests out of… … the witch-hazel cone galls. They are of a beautiful color that the photograph, of course,does not show. the leaf, causing a peculiar growth not naturalto the tree or leaf except at such times as whenaffected by the sting of the insect. it lives in a house of tiny kindling wood Orlando, Fla.Dear St.…

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