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in accordance with this idea, had been advertising young apple-trees for sale with 

 the advantage of the parasite already growing upon them. Shakspeare had caUed 

 the mistletoe a " baleful " plant, but it was for experience to decide this. 



Dr. Bull, in reply, remarked that mistletoe might stimulate the growth of 

 young apple-trees, but if apples were produced earlier, they would be smaller and 

 deficient in flavour. Orchards oppressed with mistletoe, when they became old, 

 made a very wretched appearance. 



Mr. J. H. Knight rose to express thanks on behalf of the Woolhope Club 

 for the kind reception their Malvern friends had given them. The excursion had 

 been a most enjoyable one, and they would all desire many happy returns of the 

 day. 



Train time now demanded the return of the Woolhope Club, who accord- 

 ingly departed, but by the kind invitation of Mr. Piper, the members of the 

 Malvern Club partook of tea at his residence, the Court House, where scientific 

 conversation was kept up, and Mr. Lees exhibited the Cymric chieftain's cup, 

 which, with burned bones, had been found some years since beneath the soil at the 

 Bummit of the Worcestershire Beacon, showing that cremation was then the burial 

 practice in Britain. The party departed from Ledbury by the last train, well 

 pleased \vith the events of the day. 



CAMPS ON THE MALVERN HILLS. 

 [By r. G. Hilton Price, Esq., F.G.S., &c.] 



Throdgh the kind offices of Mr. George H. Piper, F.G.S., of Ledbury, permission 

 was obtained from the Earl Somers to excavate in any part of the camps on these 

 hills. Accordingly, on the 8th September, 1879, some labourers were obtained, 

 and excavations were commenced in the camp on Hollybush Hill, on the south side 

 of the Malvern range. 



This camp is of considerable extent, following the shape of the hiUs, as 

 camps of this class always do. It has a circumference of 5,700 feet, and a length 

 of 2,000 feet. A deep ditch and a rampart encircle the two hills, i.e., Hollybush 

 and Midsummer Hills, and in the glen between the two, on the south side, is the 

 site of a British town, about 1,100 feet in length. In the interior of the camp on 

 the Hollybush Hill, are many hut hollows, or circles where some sort of habitation 

 probably existed. Some of these were opened, but without raakiqg any discovery. 

 On the east face of Midsummer Hill, which is 958 feet high, and considerably 

 higher than Hollybush Hill, are several lines of hollows which have been habita- 

 tions. Mr. Lines, a well known local antiquary, and who has paid much attention 

 to these camps, states that there are 10 or 11 ranges of terraces, with no less than 

 214 hut hollows visible, and 30 more under the brushwood. I failed to discover so 

 many, as the hill-side was covered with a dense mass of bracken, &c. , which hid 

 the surface from view. 



