A FATAL ELM.
Another set of St Helena willow-slips is going out, it seems, to Zululand, in addition to that taken by Sir Evelyn Wood. The Empress herself has some which did not come direct from St. Helena, but from a tree in the deanery garden at Windsor, which has a curious histor}’. It is an off-shoot from the celebrated tree from St. Helena, and like the weird elm in “Ilookwood,” has a grim legend attached to it. At the time of the fall of the groat Empire at Sedan, one great limb of this tree came crushing to the ground ; and, more strange yet, last June another bough fell off. The tree can be seen from the public walk on the North terrace, in front of the Naval Knight’s lodgings.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2284, 13 July 1880, Page 3
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131A FATAL ELM. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2284, 13 July 1880, Page 3
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