I am delighted to see that a large amount of privet bloom has been cut down during the last week, but unfortunately the harm already done is not in any way lessoned, as every second person one meets-seems to have the wretched cough. Next year perhaps we will be wise in time, s8 painful experience has made many people learn what privet is like, who never before made its aquaintance. Indeed I know of one lady who was haranguing against its cultivation, quite unaware of the fact that she Possessed a big healthy specimen of it in her own garden.
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