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AN INQUIRY INTO THE CAUSES OF THE DEATH OF
Those branches without leaves were probably attacked last
autumn
The intermediate numbers indicate trees which were totally
dead.
Fig. 2. Tree No. 2. Second stage of disease. Near Old Toll House,
Buckhurst Hill. 23rd June, 1900.
Thus within an area of one and a half acres, twenty-four
were quite dead, and thirteen exhibited various stages of the
disease.
At the commencement of this investigation, leave was
obtained from Mr. F. F. McKenzie, the Forest Superintendent,
to root up a dead tree, and to saw away branches from two