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2ist. — The Round Lea\-ed Sallow {Salix caprea). field near Ruckhall 

 Common, Eaton Bishop. 



22nd. — The Sycamore (Acer pseudo-platamis), in belt of trees by road-side, 

 Sufton Court. 



23rd. — The Common Dog Rose (Rosa Canina), Vennwood, Bodenham ; on a 

 stem layered in a hedge one foot from the ground. 



24th. — The Medlar. (Mespihts Germanica), at Easthampton Lodge, Shobdon 

 (Rev. Thomas Woodhouse). 



25th. — The Wych Elm (Ulmus montana), near Bockleton (Rev. J. Miller, 

 lately deceased, by Rev. Thomas Hutchinson). 



(There is some little doubt whether this example exists in Herefordshire or 

 Worcestershire). 



The Mistletoe also grows spontaneously on the following cultivated trees in 

 this County : — 



26th. — The Yellow Horse Chesnut (^sculus flava). In the Rectory 

 Gardens, Stretton Sugwas (Rev. H. C. Key). 



27th. — The Pink Horse Chesnut (/Esculus rtibicunda). In the Gardens of 

 Harewood (Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq.) 



28th. — On the Western Maple (Acer occidentalis). The Lawn, Belmont, 

 Hereford. 



29th. — On the Eastkrn Maple (Acer orientalis). The Island of Belmont 

 Pool, Hereford. 



30th. — The American Crab (Pyrtis malus Americanus). Mr. Godsall's 

 Nursery Ground, Hereford. 



The favourite site of the Mistletoe is certainly the Apple Tree. There is 

 scarcely an orchard of any standing in the county without it, and in many it grows 

 far too luxuriantly. The proportion of Apple trees which bear Mistletoe in the 

 central districts of the County, as obtained by a separate examination of more 

 than two thousand trees, as they came, in several orchards, is as follows : in 

 orchards of comparatively new kinds of fruits, principally French and Italian 

 Apples, the average number of trees which bore mistletoe ranged from 13 to about 

 30 per cent ; in old long established orchards the proportion varied from 30, to as 

 high as 90 per cent. ; whilst the general average from all the trees marked down 

 was 39 per cent, of Mistletoe bearing trees. The actual numbers were 784 with 

 Mistletoe, and 12 18 without it. Nor can this very high average be an over state- 

 ment ; for the trees were examined in March and April, after they had supplied 

 the Christmas and New year's day requirements for this and other Counties, and 

 had been subjected moreover, to the usual annual pruning. 



