Answers to Correspondents

G. B. Mc Keown (Draperstown).–Your Sycamore leaves have been examined by an expert botanist. His opinion is that they are of the Variegated Sycamore.  He says–“In the Variegated Sycamore there will of necessity occur branchlets in which the leaves will be difficult to distinguish from the leaves of the ordinary Sycamore. These leaves increase in frequency if the tree is growing under favourable conditions, when it will be likely to produce more chlorophyll (green colouring matter), and this the variegated characteristics will be to a certain extent lost”. Thank you for maps and further details of minerals; these have been duly forwarded.