7.4 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [Jory 30, 1864, 
bitions. v Colour, indeed! but Without harmony, because | is I believe the idea which is so much wanted in y our | Kent, where the tree v was cut down; it grew on another 
of the ce of relief; but in are most | exhibitions, and, — some — idea, however = e Ledbury, which lly 
defectiv Sig vem hence the want of proportions symmetry, well we may wor k, or en fight, , can never r accom- wee has grown upon soa poe Oaks, if the 
qum loveliness—all t p ertainly | mos tiv e statemen ts of , trustworthy intelligent 
of na | v b roa — Rs pae uine b y [Pp t€ 
_ Let t us first consider colour. Those 1 tudied | h enti them further, since they have never em 
i l |nol must be something in these | noti itted tc 
red, blue, and yellow—has M natural and } bition l oro n in P ey d ng i ort Mr. Edwin I CS NAE ” 1851, p. 357) thinks 
nious ‘contrast, and that when the sight is confined too | of pers pen to make them repay the visitor for 2 “that istleto occurs muc frequently on the 
lor — to any one of these, it positively aches a ant of | trouble and ex of going to see them. For the Oak than is generally imagined, t ut that the ins 
e icu n mere florist they are perhaps well enough e not made wn. he present inquiry about 
as an ex mem for some time at sendet, mel 
Look fi 
“and this 
atio nt 
gratifies the Kind according to Haat law, but actually | 
s tra 
e of each c asted, bring- 
Mrs were in 
p 
enhance ies 
ing. it o 
olour so con 
power of beaut, y; 
colour loses in force and 
value Aeg ate either wrongly I wired tw d pem 
way deprived of its ben oon necessary 
are war 
| 
00.) 
wok will now notice all the other instances which I Ms 
d who abo 
heaithy grues whieh bea 
favourable aspects, is so well calculated to afford 
| Ellis, Rose Hill, Hoddesdon. 
THE MISTLETO ON ne OAK. 
eauty, under 
(Concluded from page 7 
frequent oc very general; it is the fact t| 
fails. M ons have seen it, and are sure of it, 
but no one cans he tree with the Mistleto t. 
Time after time have I followed up the mo 
ements to qus epeated disappoin ntmen t 2 
istleto on the her for 
it in Monmouthshire * js likea a ghost, it vanishes into 
| thin air when y 
y p it; everybody has see it 
long ago, but the tree i or 
or diee the result is—nil." 
relief. 7 artists well aware of the fact of 
coloured object being killed, as they call it, by another, | 
and this so o al, that a work of scum merit a some- 
| th 
most of them have ceased to exist, either from 
u, and in good faite ion 
removal of the Oaks, or the death of the Metleto | in 
Apps inferior production 
r less 
and stili more 
contrast t of Ula ue and sallow may gen erally be 
ned by tl 
| 
ge peers of the flowers exhibited at our 
of red under its various 
t 
Buckm aker, the 
the Cotteswold Field Cla b, and lime € taken by 
Mr. dete Fram orem in | leaves are 
which Mistleto was grow —* The. 
century old, and the branch, with a A Ta unc ak of misled by a 
Mistl n z was about 40 years old.” This example 
no longer exists. . In answer to a -Ó f inquiry a abo ut 
^" Mr. Clifford, of — eon 
o say :—*“A large party o he; to examine the 
Mistioto Oak vaste ay, and were sorry to find that 
the branch ot the tree on — it grew was prés] | 
The F 
pa 
e Frampton Mistleto-bearing Oak, as one of 
| vem T : e 
of 
acm where it grow b tt 
examination has always us the same ; for some ca 
other the instance fails, and the Mistleto can never be 
k. . The tree has been felled or m 
dow y be the isolated bunch of wild Ivy or 
pale de ‘which Arcis ive 
off t Or 
ak. 
rchance where nothing 
is found, as most frequently happens tho have been 
of small twigs f the Oak 
branch itself, ers ted v pert: EMT of the 
they do jp read Mistle 
d 
The tenant intends to observe 
bt ine 
foliage may be left exclusively M the relief of red 
It is not here, how uch as in form an nd 
variety, t eli th f 
tha si Ib 
our floral exhibitions. “OF form I have alr baci 
a 
universally imd i pole RH, à 
ar atm found in Nature, and is so little pe cal den it | 
"Ni is very difficult to give that consideration to form 
which the importance of tbe subject demands, so long 
whether the Mistleto grows b» upon it." (April 19, | 
1364 
EOM 
qas tates that Mi 
the placing of flowers for exhibition. But 
w— e — lines. 
suppose w 
, Suppose we take a circle or 
years 
some hospes y surrounded, instead of water, by mere|doing so." The Mistleto Oak, near Usk, can be 
space. heard of u five years since, and shortly afterwards 
There is, perhaps, no object in nature more beautiful it is a to have been cut down with its neigh- 
than a little wooded island towering up in the centre | bours. er Ten j^ of the > Goitre example i is thus sadly 
43. acconnte rot about 
“Scenes and Tales of arp "ich 
n Oa kn 
y who 
In some [iced the m 
being podre with per uu Mitt bash is 
ree, but it is fou me o be upon a branch of 
d. pple tre 
r than pA here the following 
f 
in the Oak t 
t St. Dial’s 
pe os 'Ponporthleiny, aen Mon: 
1 have been e to l 
It shows at once very graphically his own zeal in the 
of science, and ution essentially 
y in dealing with facts of rare occurrence. ir 
regret | that the excellent sketch sent with it m 
course, will be particular in nail 
gh | inquiries which hav: 
light feathery foliage drooping down, and ries din 
off the central mass Mn. the dei Furend 
will suppose. cae 
ing, we and utt 
Makes of (rein de pen this it would be, quite 
independently of 
themselves. 
Now, if some spirited and tasteful p wou 
just work out this idea ea for the pez of yit 
can be 
hos ipi qp ai , but shit by fol 
owing Ren 
some of the natural laws of beauty, t seems t. e that 
all indivi dual beauty in the ‘objects 
| in| Crmesgyddinn held at rte ven 
self, 
Mt | 
—“ I reme amber about 
e 
Inyse 
J. M. N. April 19, 1 
b 
ote a 
yea x thero was a very 
of Mistle! m grow 
er the President's chair e bol 
ny. I saw it t 
ou 
ve | ing every case of its green on 
f my 
S M 
| the edge of a quarry ina 
» arge bush n Oak in the oe 
parish of |o hex he was imu por eerie cut 
down and h 
urs k, and the 
experience will only be 
ou eec M of 
fte 
viii he had Fue de: oat two ye dn Hirt aep 
owing on a scra gay bush of Oak that es 
coppice wood. 
accept his offer to point it out to me, and w 
I was to climb, and an 
my fi 
Elis with i difficulty I got there, creeping d 
all fours, and there 
sure enough it was, as as pretty a 
I e 
no bow hundreds of others did also." 
64) — 
1 Dickson n. 
iety, sta 
tha s) jn ae « gie Oak yee 
miles from Maidstone, 7 the side H the Medway, but | 
since this has ntl 
m robab 
The late Mr. Loudon, also, was s 
he estate of the late Miss Woods e 
Chichester, but this 
passed a 
and the oet once of the land it awe 
Dovaston, in 
m of Angles (vol. v. p. 203), says he saw it 
T. 
nging 
some? 
to growing in an 
confirmed, it has 
hown it 
tree can no lon 
y with E observer, 
Loudon's Mag we of Natural 
Oak 
hopw yke, | gr 
er be heard 
m 
the knowl is magnificent ‘find,’ 
s Park, at Plas Newydd, Tie of ‘Anglesea, 
vi iid over a very Druidical 
(Lees Botanical Looker | Out. 2) But this 
ees than in their present sta 
able to aff Such an exhibitor mick 
himself constructing a little island of beauty. 
rece are by | 
it imagine | not 
He 
never 
ndeed deni 
tin the same book, Wat eeg 
the apane 
to be found on 
The f folowing examples are iuter bid, though they | e 
„been publicly recorded, nor are they any 
centre; vea would be especially required 
and feather 
for bowery l 
effect ; ; while in and amongst these his 
T 
ne er 
Sir — Hoskyns, Bart., of Hare- 
. 114, p219) 
A writer in the“ Quarterly panos «caa Oli" in 
speaks et tho Mio aa * dese 
pep iat NU obe 
rA, 
Es ards, but i 
eat ai te, which is S frequently Å» 
growing ou Oai n the grata of Europe." 
nnecessary Iv ionfedon, T it seems to me, h 
betwee en Pew: pu nts, and I 
and orc 
valid 
flowering iat 
is county, the Mistl eto g 
] Meteo 
paco for the reason 
rcum 
a hand dfold by prid and. surrounding ci 
stances. 
at £f. Pit Lm nt 
m" 22 to tel the anecdote that When goers at 
t the Loranthus 
grew fur far LA than at present; whilst the Misti 
to advan "up and amongst the 
bare Orchid in 
wi of beaut: 
be p over- 
spreding ngs m ie do know - rmt experiment. 
t bears no | both gentlemen rode 
id the 107. w 
there upon the Oak, thou T. it has ne 
heard of, 
cumstances 
arrange any ous number | ne 
pan 
Bart, who would ut believeit. As usual in those da; 
a wager w: 
5 
as to decide the Mes 
n 
e may Pd quite sure pad Spat tog was 
since been | 
in Rockingham 
Fores! 
. Northamptonshire where t 
ions, to 
ects of Sa arek which I 
of beauty, 
| 
he 
climbing up to 
Teri Smith, Esq. pes 
and still more so 
ic inspection ; de even one 
or any other ae in 
interest to our 
some s 
derived. 
t 
ett 
atterw: 
-It 
t grew 
Önk! in the Y Vale oť Neath, 
miles below Abe 
ide blown down in a storm. 
grew on an Oak at Mersham Hatch, near Ashford, 
(J. id 
ars since on the lower bough of a 
Glam con ar a about twa 
e Oak was 
me ye 
ther 
to n not only in the traditions of the Celts, but 
| in those northern nations." have 
| EE Wille this paper has jede » Bs press, + I the 
| been d that the Mistleto an Oak ee 
| Fc à e k, at diram. i rrey GARE Be "Findlay) bt 
ray not had time to make i in ee about it. Dr. 
pe Naturalists’ Field Olub. 
SSS 
DIDYMOPANAX (ARALIA) PAPYRIFERA, 
AND ITS CUI TURE.. 
by M. 
vo z Did us nax rifera, better k 
NIS anii x un papy «sag CER: intere 
plant in two respects— — utility and orent 
Stelzner in th ; 
