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on the Tamarix articulata ; on the contrary, I seldom or never 
saw a Loranthaceoua parasite on trees belonging to the orders 
Anonacese, Hypericaceae, Xanthoxyleae, and Euphorbiaceae, 
although every one of these orders is rather copiously represented 
by large and mostly evergreen trees in the woods of the Angolan 
highlands ; but I have frequently seen some species of scarlet- 
flowering Loranthi investing introduced trees of Citrus aurantitm 
and Citrus limonum, and also those of Ficus carica : and it seems 
to me that this curious parasite emigrates with a kind of pre- 
dilection from the original habitation to the neighbouring fruit 
trees ; for on one occasion I saw a whole orchard of Orange-trees 
invaded by a blood-red flowering Loranthus, and in another 
instance I met with a plantation of Fig-trees {Ficus caricd)^ 
most of them covered not with figs but with a grey-leaved 
Loranthus with yellow flowers. It seems also that the quality 
of the sap or juice of a tree exercises little or no influence 
upon the vegetation of Loranthacese ; for in several instances I 
found one of the same species growing, equally vigorously, on 
Adansonia, which has a watery juice, and at another time on Fig- 
trees, of which the sap is milky and glutinous. 
These two latter circumstances seem to hint at the proba- 
bility and perhaps even facility of the future culture of these 
pretty parasites in European gardens, wherein such an introduc- 
tion would vary the rather wearying "Pelargonism " and " Or- 
chidism ; " or, at any rate, these plants would be contrasted with 
many new and graceful forms and strange-looking productions of 
the tropical zone, never yet seen in a living state in Europe, and 
until now only admired and praised by travellers. 
XV. On the Fruiting of Seedling Fruit-trees. 
By the Eev. W. Kingslet. 
EvEET one knows how very long is the time between sowing the 
seed of a fruit-tree and getting fruit from it, so that few men of 
fifty years of life have the courage to propagate seedlings. I 
believe the time may be shortened most materially, and that a 
very few words will explain the correct way of growing seedling 
fruit-trees. I have been led to the idea by the difilculty I have 
had in getting some grafted trees into bearing, and by observ- 
ing that precisely the same sort of growth occurred in some 
