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25. — The Wstch Elm, fUlmus montana.) near Bockletou, 

 (Rev. J. Miller, lately deceased, by Eev. 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 Hohse Chesntjt, {JEscidus flava.J 

 In the Rectory Gardens, Stretton Sugwas. (Rev. H. C. Key.) 



27th. — The Pink Hoese Chesnttt, {JEsculus rubicunda ) 

 in the Gardens of Harewood. (Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq.) 



28th. — Ok the "Western Maple, {Acer oeeidentaUs.) 

 The Lawn, Belmont, Hereford. 



29th. — On the Eastern Maple, {Acer orientalis.) 

 The Island of Belmont Pool, Hereford. 



30th. — The Ameeican Crab, {Pyrus mains Americanus.) 

 Mr. Godsall's Nui-bcry Ground, Hereford. 



The favourite site of the Mistletoe is certainly the Apple 

 Tree. There is scarcely an orchaid of any standing in the county 

 without it, and in many it grows far too luxuriantly. The pro- 

 portion of Apple trees which bear Mistletoe in the central dis- 

 tricts 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 1 3 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 aver- 

 age from all the trees marked down was 39 per cent of Mistletoe 

 bearing trees. The actual numbers were 784 with Mistletoe, 

 and 1218 without it. — Nor c£in this verj' high average be an 

 over statement ; for the trees were examined in March and April, 

 after they had supplied the Christmas and New year's day re- 

 quirements, for this and other Counties, and had been subjected 

 moreover, to the usual annual pruning. 



