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and Ontario varieties. Here its luxuriant branches thrust :hemselves into notice, 

 as well by their contrast to the tree itself, as by their lofty situation. These 

 trees are now very much planted throughout the country, and no sooner do they 

 attain any size, than a number of them are sure to become inhabited by the 

 Mistletoe. In the central parts of the county the proportion of trees which bear 

 the Viscum may be said to vary from lo to 30 per cent, according to the age and 

 position of the trees ; but in some districts, and in some isolated groups of trees, 

 they probably reach a still higher average. On the upright Lombardy Poplar 

 (Popiihis fastigiata). on the contrary, there is no recorded instance of its growth 

 in this county, nor in England, that I am aware of, although examples have been 

 occasionally found on the Continent. 



On the Hawthorn the growth of Mistletoe is widely extended through the 

 county, though it is much more common in some districts than in others. Mr. 

 Edwin Lees has observed the Mistletoe to grow on Thorns, in lines extending 

 across the country, which he accounts for by the long observed fact of the Field- 

 fares and Thrushes flying across the country in direct lines : * Thorns within the 

 line are numerously affected, whilst the Oaks and such uncongenial trees seem 

 passed over, and the Thorns out of this line are also comparatively free. 



On the Lime Tree, the Maple, the White Flowering Acacia, and the Mountain 

 Ash, the Mistletoe is not uncommonly observed— considering the number of trees 

 the Maple does not seem to bear Mistletoe so frequently here as in some other 

 districts : but the Mountain Ash seems a favorite site for it, though this tree is 

 not very common in the County. 



It is singular that its growth on the Pear tree should be so very uncommon. 

 In many works of reference this tree is placed next to the Apple, as a Mistletoe- 

 bearing tree, but in this County it is extremely rare to find it. Mixed up together 

 so commonly, as these trees are here, the absence of the Mistletoe upon it is very 

 marked. At the present time, after very extended enquiries— enquiries which 

 must have caused some thousands of trees to be examined — the only instances 

 of its occurrence in this County are on two trees at Graftonbury, one an old tree 

 loaded and almost killed by it, in the orchard by the fold-yard, at Graftonbury 

 farm, and the other a younger tree, in the pleasure ground of Graftonbury House 

 also bears a large bunch of Mistletoe ; and on authority which I have no reason to 

 doubt, it is said to grow on one tree in Mr. Martin's Perry-orchard at Monkhide, 

 near Ledbury — the only example to be heard of in this great perry district of the 

 County — and lastly, it is also said to grow at Wigmore, in five or six places, on one 

 pear tree. 



On all other trees it is certainly rare. Besides the recorded instance of the 

 growth of the Mistletoe on the Wild-rose, it formerly grew spontaneously on a 

 briar, with an engrafted rose, in the garden of Thomas Cam, Esq., one of our 

 members, for many years, but was destroyed in i860 to make way for improve- 



*" When the Velts fly from North to South, it will be a hard winter," they say in Worces- 

 tershire, ''but if they fly in the reverse direction it will be a mild one." The same thing is said 

 inreference to wild geese and ducks. (Mr. J. S. Haywood, Worcester.) 



