Worcester.
_Beech-trees struck by Lightning_ (Vol. vi., p. 129.).--On Thinnigrove
Common, near Nettlebed, Oxon, a beech-tree, one of three or four growing
round a pit, was shattered by lightning about thirteen or fourteen years
ago. A gentleman who has lived sixty years in the neighbourhood of the
beech woods near Henly, tells me that he remembers three or four similar
cases. Single beech-trees, which are very ornamental, generally grow very
low and wide-spreading, which may be the reason why they often escape. On
the other hand, in the woods where they run up close and very high, they
present so many points of attraction to the electric fluid, that probably
for that cause it is not often the case that one tree in particular is
struck.