Plants 
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instance, during the Christmas season 
of 1907, 380,000 kg were sent from 
Brittany to England. But this custom 
is very popular not only in Great 
Britain, but also in German towns, 
wherever English colonies exist, as, 
for example, in Berlin, Dresden, and 
Munich. Moreover, in Germany this 
custom is gaining ground more and 
more. In Berlin, at Christmas time, 
there are enormous quantities of mistle- 
toe for sale, both of the proper species 
( Viscum alburn) and also of the variety 
( Viscum album van laxum) which grows 
upon the Scots pine. As a natural 
consequence of this trade, both plants 
are becoming scarce in many of their 
native haunts. 
In England, the Cheddar pink 
{Dianthus caesius) is frequently expos- 
ed for sale by the cottagers at the foot 
of the gorge which furnishes its only 
British station (C. E. Moss). 
