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time, The llev. Gregory Smitii, M. A , has kindly sent me the 

 following description of its present appearance : "The Mistletoe 

 is still growing where Dr. Chadock observed it, on an Oak some 

 60 years old, and there it has been, according to the "Woodman, 

 for some 30 years or more. The Mistletoe grows in one bunch 

 of five stems from the trunk of the tree about 50 feet from the 

 ground." It does not bear berries although from the small portion 

 Mr. Smith was good enough to inclose, it is the female plant.* 



Ifo. 3. On a Fine Oak at Badaius Couiit, Sedburt Park, 

 NEAR Chepstow, the Mistletoe is also now growing luxuriantly. — 

 G. Ormerod, Esq., has kindly forwarded the following descrip- 

 tion of its condition at this time. "The Mistletoe is still growing 

 on an Oak here, the tree is about 85 years old and situated on the 

 northern mound of Badams Court, once a moated mansion of the 

 Herberts, or Ap Adams of Beachly and LUanllowel, but now 

 forming part of the Sedbury Park estate. There is only one 

 branch of Mistletoe on the tree, but it has become very luxuriant 

 and has now a diameter of at least three feet. It is more thin 

 and straggling in its growth than it usually is on the apple tree, 

 though it is very healthy and bears berries freely. It grows from 

 the side of a large branch some yards from the main stem of the 

 tree and about 20 feet from the ground. The Oak itself is 

 healthy and vigorous, and does not seem to be injured by the 

 parasite." (April 5th, 1864.) 



No. 4 The Mistletoe is also noAV growing on an Oak at 

 BuRNiKGFOLD Farm, Dunsfold, StJRREY. — The Proprietor of the 

 Estate, "W. Layland Woods, Esq., has been good enough to send 

 me the account of its present condition. "The Mistletoe at Burn- 

 in"-fold grows on an Oak, not less then 150 years old. The tree 

 is more upright than spreading, and the branch grows on the side 

 of an upright limb at about 50 feet from the ground. There is 

 only one branch on the tree, it has grown there for many years but 

 in January 1849, it was broken very severely by a high wind. 



• 1 have since learnt that there is hut little Mistletoe in the neighhour- 

 hood of the tree. The nearest Mistletoe-hearing tree is a Pear tree, ahout 

 100 yards Irom the Oak ; and this in itself, as we have seen, is an example 

 of rare occurrence. 



