Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 238
ooks at a tree on which these are growing,they may be likened to brooms with badly tangledstraws. Long ago people thought much morethan now that any odd or curious growth mustbe due to witches or other evil influences, but nowwe know that this hackberry witches broom iscaused by very small mites of… … THE WITCH HACKBEKKY-TREE. warts appear not to be caused by the presenceof mites or anything like them. —ProfessorCharles E. Bessey.
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