Jury 23, 1864] THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 699 
rons, and edged | th is a small punch, with which, if necessary, ve taken some pains to ascertain its existence, at 
at rings ait Heaths Cw co AN i. it 5 to o pier ce the ead, in Ana er to admit of Laan l through Hg present boue in all the instances which have been 
Elevated on the walls at the Fern-growing end, it a wire thread, by which it may be > su curring in England. The following 
Woodsia hyperborea, pur jm septentrionale and| To complete insta ances I p^» been able to get well | authenticate ed :— 
fon , with other small but more common Ferns, | on moe side of one of the branches, a small ges PS. 1. The Oak at E. 
were growing din ; while near at hand a sort of | by m of a spring ad to the other branch, 1894] I visited this Mis loto -bea aring Oak. Iris dtl 
accommodated Osmunda spectabilis, regalis, and Rr a of scissors with which to cut the lea y the side of the drive leading from the Park up the 
innamomea. Amongst the Ferns was a fine specimen | When the scissors are not needed, the: pring is un- | Ridgeway Hill towards Malvern, t 200 yards 
of the singular Athyrium F.-f. Frizelliæ, which was fastened, being made to do so easily and quick kly, and | beyond the Lodge. Th ay me 80 or 90 
original], tained from the “Devils Glen,” i f the | years old, and the Mistleto grows freely up 
Aem and fell to the lot of Mr. J. Bain, of M pinge without any trouble. At the base is a moveable | is most luxurian igh ree where three 
ege Botanic Gardens— —just the Dra Tm whose | spring which serves to open the branches, arge branches grow very near each other, d in 
thing ought Thus 8 We see tbat this instrument; is gc id each i Ee Moos ja ui the s gh beyond the 
it may be usef g y where it is situa t is 
ing in the a They were as fo Lame — Double | places in the tree, one fresh yearling plant Rs p 
flowering Chinese Peaches in variety, Bent tie Am straight out from the of the tree about 
fragifera; Berberis nepalensis, Bealii, and Wallichii; À 12 feet from the pear A ^ large bunch of 
Chammbetia foliosa, Bignonias, Clematis, Daphn Mile growing in a large branch. many feet from 
Jasmi leas, Passifloras, Skimmias, he main stem was dead decaying, but without 
asia fat ming phalum, Weigelas, Wis [sam killed the branch. The Mistleto plants are of 
odendron Nuttallii and retusu h sexes, and the females bear berries freely, Iti 
the latt latter very p with others; variegated Acers, and more slender and pendulous, with smaller and thinner 
man many o other plants suited to the situation. The whole es; or in other words, it is n stiff and rigid and 
ill of short-jointed as it usually is n growing on the 
ch fi i ing age and growth. It is one of Apple tree. During the 12 years I have known this 
i t ied out at Rockville duri tree the Mistleto has increased upon it, a he Oak 
the e past Tem. years, is already beginning to show signs of suffering severely 
indi rom parasite on the large Moss-covered 
rasite. n 
branches it was curious to observe the great number 
P €— a à single i d the peas of the ee of 
of "it seeds which had been deposited by the 
be 
m4 n of men cleverer than himself, as exhibited at 
a trial exhibition, would not be by any means an 
caylatle pik towards the close of his well-meaning 
| Speri ent. In some such condition did I omarah 
Oak at Tedstone Delamere.—In 1853 Dr. 
onde (Principal d. Brazenose College), discovered 
the Mistleto growing on a thriving Oak in the parish 
of Tedst pate? 
r| stone Delamere, It had been for som 
le, the finest ime oodman, who kept et, 
! soda to be found in e Y privato garden of the United occasionally produced a piece of it on particular occa- 
| Kingdom. So, geling. ind a ge from Loudon, T cumbent of the parish, at 
| written some e M s in which it is prs that e ith, M. kin 
the chie Me found in the gardens following description of its present appearance :—* The 
gentlemen of t that time w Um 3 guild, ea "iid istleto is still growing where Dr. Crad ed 
good-bye to Rockville, it, on an Oak some 69 years old, and there it has been, 
ccording to the woodman, fe zy Cy ge a or more. 
" e Mistleto grows in one bunch of five stems from 
Or ü HARDIVILLÉ x NUMEROTEUR. | the trunk of the tree, about 50 feet from the foouna. 3 
It does not bear berries, erea from the small 
there are f few which are lasting, for tru uly good In Yon- 
onsare rare. The subject of this note, th Noméroteur portion Mr. Smith was good enou gh to inclose, it is the 
female plant 
No. 3. On a fine Oak at Badams Court, Sed 
Park, near Chepstow, |the "n le jas now me 
luxuriantly. Ormerod, indly forwarded 
the following description of its condition at this time. 
growing on an Oak bere here; the 
it wn. « 
Horticulture is a science so} vast, and embraces The Mistleto is still 
subjects so di eink that however good a man's memory 
an 
| may be Hi is insuficienk, d d henen st beeomes Her yvy fries of. and L 5 one : 
give it mec mong the means employed ios Reon part of the Sedbury Park estate. There — 
D. are tickets or late us upon, parehment or paper, e bran ies E 
or small pieces of &e. ; att oa xt sey is or ifesi de i rd pig ot Vo. 
and are very liable i gt lot. or displaced Av very good 
plan » 
bands of lead, whic po rolled pat the stems or 
branches of the plants. Upon this lead a n 
mding with a ogue, i 
least three feet. It is more thin and strace.ing in its 
wth than it usually is on the Apple tree, though it 
is very healthy and bears berries freely. It grows from 
the pii a ame branch some yards from " 
ste 
is marked, eorresponding : the about 
the name and any particular remarks are entered. | 8 a invent con NH icio ‘has rende The Oak itself is "health _Yigoro 
A 3 y y and and not 
n" method is su done ite. 
a real orticu not 1 
. First t (agre 5 . [^ his numbering pincers will find their way into the "A. 4 The jared by the 
| rai anal 1 to 10, or rather from 1 to 9, the zero, hands re hortieulterists o mor gei since a are the oi Dobai Mistl raid ux fold, growing on an Oak 
to 9, the 
i fra s h Aq. ED 
OMM with P va ees ra e numbers 10, best haye beep produc eit gl of the est estate, W By AM. CN r . has been 
h ^ sli v ii dodi g me the account of its nt 
fixed upon a block of wood, and the figures have d be condition. "ded. The. Misthato at Burningfold ape 
ears old. tree i 'e 
u a THE t 
So that to mark the we Ist, a pair of Tue Viscum Mid but rare aly * p ight than spreading, and the branch grows 
| tirs to out the metal; 2d, a Pri of numbers; | on the Oak tree—as seldom in PE ge day the | side of an ira limb at about 50 feet Fon [re 
= block to receive them; and 4th, a hammer to Pra Tod Druidical times of old, when its very rarity heightened |ground. There is only onejbranch on the tree ; it has 
. and indent da figures in eae leads, tus, | the veneration with which it was regarded when ound, m: "n. bid T duas " 5 Ar 1849 
it 
| a0 i the cus when w -» as is em et repert severe high wind. 
to QA fo change its apr, as ist religi one petitur," says Pliny in his Natur al HARNA, it. flouri ishe di Pilea Gece than belies; it 
E a used in different parts of a large trag e ae a | History (lib. xvi, c. 44). In an rhe aly note by Dr. | is ery € id T sd long, of a pendulous nature, not 
pay Besides, it n" ces for one i the little figures to p P in p^ SENE ation of “ Richard of Cirencester,” | grow: s Mistleto Pre does, Du ing 
| dea da gg TM considera- (p. 43 sai he i ves the opinion of Dr. Daubeny, * that | the s Lai p a T built her nest in the midst 
p TE. ak BA T Mm jt ics nced. an ingen m were exterminated after the | of the bunch. It does not injure the tree at pee 
Fe osi ardivillé, of the Rue St, Jacques, in Paris, Deu yed.” N. ^» Vol. ii) It is} but has in fact been the means of its Dip sib 
invent the Naméroteur, or EUM Pincers, which highly probable tha thie was the case, but since all sie Rs e to liy nch d the t xe dii 
bears his their akak e bee n gone pores since, it can Oak ws alone in a ece “of 
y ent in its gen large make n d differ renco as occurrence at the present buta another high, fus E ormerly stood 22m has. mile the 
Coram ry for | beauty of the tree. Soil of the. et 
Pe Made ne o belie | d 
with the u r enie 
jum 
te Series l 
small steel shanks screwed into the blade, | and PETETA Oak | C. Hooper Esq. of Ea : B | has | 
site blade, which is fat, the figures T E and gri Mistleto-a| very kindly obtained for me the account oí 
ws, 80 that, without groping, one is | orchards very generally, and the trees themselves are | this tree. “The first Lord Bolton (gr of the 
certainty numerical | often neg in very c rd alliance; indeed it would | present Lord) sent a specimen of the Mistleto from 
A pressure of f blades suffices to} not be too to say, from the great abundance of | this tree to Sir Joseph Banks, who g 
figure in the que of lead that has been Qaka in the + org a SOME that the birds must | it in the Philosophical Transactions. The Oak is still a 
e wi d e Mistleto i 
may ma req but from r from storms it is 
ment simi umberin ng pincers w ork upon instances of its growth on the Oki in Herefordshire, difficult to say. The Mistleto grows near the middie 
: it similar to that of a pair of Scissors, y alternate the one in Eastnor Park, which has been 80 W ll kno 1| of the ine at a considerable height from the virg 
p and sbutting of the curv: i and in several places among the branches.” (April 28, 
^ yard M shutting the ATO, ePposite lades, | the county at pe Delamere, tiec by De 1864. )- Mr. Hooper had not seen the tree himself, but 
e whic a E plate nf Jead Cradock în 18 188 x is but little Mistleto in the 
t presso, gare hich is wanted, and then ws of the Mistleto on the Onc is eS o nnn boost 
P qii 
h ^4 
and so so interesting, opu isa Pear t bout 100 cs z Oak 
Coste end of one blade, pda gr ee fined cod to this county in my in inquiries about it, tienes tat peat smell 
