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MISTLETOE 



HEKEFORDSHIRE 



deserves the especial attention of the Members of our Club. 

 The Viscum Album is indeed so much more common here than 

 in any other County of England, that it may tnily be said to be 

 more distinctive of Herefordshire than the Apple tree itself. It 

 is not my intention to give the Botanical characteristics of the 

 Mistletoe, which books contain ; nor do I propose to give any 

 special description of the graceful elegant plant you all know so 

 well ; but take this opportunity of bringing before your notice, 

 some of the chief points of interest with regard to it, which 

 have been more or less overlooked, viz : — 



1st. The Mode of its Propagation and growth : 



2nd. The Trees it lives upon in this County : 



3rd. The recorded instances of its growth on the Oak in 

 England : and 



4th. The Romance of its history as developed in times 

 past and present. 



