SEVEN GARDENS AND A PALACE.
- [To TEM EDITOR OP THE "SP5CPATOIL1 Sut,—In your issue of July 28th, in a review of "Seven Gardens and a Palace" occurs the following passage :—" In writing of beeches this writer notices the curious fact that they are never struck by lightning." Close to the roadside within a very few yards of this house stands a beech which was struck by lightning on Sunday, July 29th. A piece of bark was stripped from the east side of the trunk, and the course of the current is marked by ruptured wood fibre for a distance of three or four feet. I have just removed the accom- panying piece of bark from the tree, the rough edge of which is the result of the electric current That there may be no mistake I send with it a twig from the same tree bearing a beech-nut. I am staying here for a short holiday, and give you the date of the occurrence on the authority of my hostess, Mrs. Smith.—I am, Sir, &e.,
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