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kno-wTi. Nevertheless the interest in this plant is so universal, 

 that this deficiency — like many of another kind — has been met 

 by the improved means of transit in modern times. The 

 Mistletoe has now actually become an established export from 

 this County, and there, perhaps, never was a year when so many 

 people rejoiced in its presence at their Christmas festivities as 

 during that which has just passed. Through the politeness of 

 the Trafiic Managers for the Great Western, and London and 

 North Western Eailways at Hereford, (Messes. Wall and 

 Gaktweight) I am enabled to give you an approximation to- 

 wards the correct return of the quantity of Mistletoe actually 

 sent out of this County last December. The exact returns are as 



follows : — 



Tons. Cwt. Qrs. 



Hereford sent off 25 



Withington 7 15 



Ledbury 15 2 3 



Moreton 2 11 1 



Dinmore 3 3 



Leominster 12'14 



Berrington 16 



Woofferton 2 



Ludlow 1 3 



Eoss 15 



Moorhampton 5 



making a total of eighty-nine tons, three hundred weight, and 

 three quarters, actually sent off by invoice. But the Guards 

 and Engine-drivers had the privilege of exporting Mistletoe on 

 their own account, and did so by almost every train that left the 

 County during the early part of December. An immense quan- 

 tity went off in this way, and I am told that I greatly under-es- 

 timate it, when I put it down at 25 tons in addition — thus mak- 

 ing a grand total of more than one hundred and fourteen tons. 



The places to which it was chiefly sent were Manchester 

 and Liverpool — for their supply, and that of Towns further 

 north — London — and Birmingham. 



The established price paid for it, when delivered at the 

 stations, was from four to five shillings per cwt. according to its 



