10 JULY 1909, Page 20

WYCH ELMS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Wiltabire is some distance from Lincolnehire, so it may interest your correspondent Mr. Whiting of last week to know that the same phenomenon has occurred here,—an unusual amount of blossom on the wych elms, succeeded - now by a lack of foliage. Some of the branches are so bare that, until I saw your correspondent's letter, I thought the trees were going to die.—I am, Sir, &c.,