366 THE MISTLETOE IN HEREFORDSHIRE. 
Pear-tree (Pyrus communis). Sycamore (Acer Pseudo-platanus). 
R ercus Robur). ommon Dog Rose (Rosa conina): 
er (Alnus glutin edlar (Mespilus Germanica). 
csse Sallow vds caprea). Tu Elm (Ulmus montana). 
'The Mistletoe also grows spontaneously on the following cultivated 
trees in this county :— 
dirus Horse-chestnut — (ZEsculus American Crab (Pyrus Malus Ame- 
va). 
Hones vede sd Hippocastanum). Red rud Maple (Acer rubrum). 
Wes e (Platanus occiden- Upright Wych Elm (Ulmus montana 
e 9 erecta). 
Eastern Plane (P. orientalis). 
The favourite site of the Mistletoe is the Apple-tree. There is 
scarcely an orchard of any standing without it, and in many it grows 
far too luxuriantly. The proportion of Apple-trees which bear Mistle- 
toe in the ceritral districts of thé 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 13 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 average from all the trees marked 
down was 39 per cent. of Mistletoe-bearing trees. The actual num- 
bers were 784 with Mistletoe, and 1218 without it. Nor can this very 
high average be an over-statement. The trees were scien after 
they had supplied the Christmas and New Year’s Day for 
this and other counties, and had been subjected moreover er to the usual 
annual pruning. 
ams, of Marden, kindly undertook to obtain a fair reliable 
average of the number of Apple-trees in full vigour, which bear Mis- 
tletoe in that district, and sent the result of his examination of six 
different orchards. There were altogether 590 trees, 222 with, and 
388 without Mistletoe, or 34 per cent. of Mistletoe-bearing ones on 
the general average. He was careful to select orchards in which the 
tree 
on the one hand, those of very young trees, where comparatively few 
were affected by the parasite, and on the other, those containing very 
_old trees, where almost all of them bear it. 
It is the belief amongst orchard proprietors that the Mistletoe, when 
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