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IN the gardens of New College, Oxford, there is a fine avenue of horse-chestnut trees, most of which have had some of their lower limbs lopped off, followed by the usual crop of abundant smaller shoots around the original bough. In one tree, however, with respect to one severed branch, these resultant shoots bear, year after year, not green, but pale yellow leaves, the summer through—
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WHARTON, H. A “Golden Bough”. Nature 16, 24 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016024c0
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