A correspondent says : "I asked Prof. Charles S. Sargent how he explained the trimming of the Norway spruce, about which I have previously written, and he thinks the ends of the twigs are so brittle in very cold weather, that a high wind may have broken them off. Each man has some new theory. I will look after the matter, as I can, the coming winter".

[We feel, as before stated, that though we have had to admit that squirrels do cut off some branchlets, all the facts show the impossibility of their being responsible for all. And we incline to the opinion that this suggestion is a very reasonable one. - Ed. G. M].