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THE MISTLETOE. 
The orchard’s trees in rows disposed, 
Whose boughs thick tufts of Mistletoe adorn, 
With fruit of lucid white on joints of yellow borne. 
John Scott. 
£c Mistletoe,” says Lord Bacon “ chiefly grows upon 
Crab-trees, Apple-trees, sometimes upon Hazels, and 
rarely upon Oaks, the Mistletoe wbereof is accounted 
very médicinal. It is an evergreen that bears a 
white glittering berry, and differs entirely from the 
tree whereon it grows. It continues green, Winter 
and Summer, which the tree does not.” 
“Naught was green upon the oak, 
But moss and rarest Mistletoe.” 
The property possessed by this plant, of deriving 
nourishment by engrafting itself into the branches of 
a tree, has rendered it for several centuries an ob- 
ject of interest to naturalists. Miller gives the fol- 
lowing quaint account of the manner by which, in 
his time, the propagation of the Mistletoe was sup- 
