THE GARDEN I NO WORLD. 
January 9, 1909. 
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Sditoffiol. 
We have a record of all the trees on 
which the Mistletoe has been known to 
grow in this country, with other trees on 
the Continent. \\ e have only one record 
•for the Mistletoe on the Walnut and that 
was recorded by De Candolle, who found 
it growing on this tree in trance. We 
observed it the other day on an old 
Walnut tree at Stoke Park, Slough. It 
was growing on a thick. branch of the 
tree, where it had caused a large swell¬ 
ing owing to the ramifications of the 
Mistletoe inside the tissues of the tree. 
The popular emblem is very plentiful on 
other trees in the Park, but chiefly on 
the common Lime, Black Poplar, Haw¬ 
thorn and Black Walnut. This, then, 
• constitutes a record of two species of 
Walnut tree. 
The other trees on which it has been 
recorded as growing in this country are 
Apple, Pear, Ash, English and Scotch 
Elm, Birch, White Thorn, Peach, Crab 
Tree, Sycamore, Oak, several species of 
Willow, several species of Maple, Black 
and White Poplar, Service Tree, Acacia, 
Medlar, Mountain Ash, Laurel, Elder, 
White Broom, Laburnum, Hornbeam, 
Locust Tree and Larch. The Druids of 
old placed much stress on the finding of 
Mistletoe upon the Oak. The popular 
idea, judging from this, was that the Oak 
was the proper tree for the Mistletoe, 
though this is not really the case. It is 
very seldom found upon the Oak tree and 
for that reason more stress is laid upon 
the finding of it on such a host plant. 
At least fifteen localities, however, have 
been named for it on the Oak in England 
arid Wales. 
A good authority on the Mistletoe and 
its habits, Mr. A. D. Webster, thinks it 
will live upon any tree, it being a ques¬ 
tion rather of convenience or opportunity 
rather than liking. At the same timejwe 
know that it prefers certain trees, judging 
by its frequency upon them, while it is 
usually absent from Oaks or Fir trees, 
which may be as plentifully distributed 
in the neighbourhood as the trees upon 
which it grows. The Scotch Pine is ; 
very unusual tree for it, but, neverthe 
less, there are several records both ii 
this country and on the Continent for it 
There is only one other type of thi 
family on the Continent, namely, the rec 
berried Mistletoe or Loranthus, whicii 
presents an unusual sight to those wh< 
are familiar with the white berries of th 
common Mistletoe. 
A Bmr?cf?ii?g Haft’s-Tor^gue 
(Scolopendrium vulgare ramulosissimum). 
In the normal form, the Hart’s-tongue 
is a Fern that is almost as little divided 
as any of the British Ferns. The base is 
indented or heart-shaped, but otherwise 
the frond is strap-shaped and entirely un¬ 
divided. Some varieties have been found 
in a wild state, more or less crested or 
developed in some unusual form or other, 
but Fern hunters and particularly those 
who are cultivators, have raised an im¬ 
mense number of distinct varieties from 
other class of Fern amongst the Britis 
types. It was raised as a sporling froi 
another form under cultivation name. 
S. v. ramo-marginatum, but the froD 
was more or less divided at the margir 
In this instance, not only the frond . 
branched at the apex and sides, but th 
division has gone down to the petiole c 
leaf stalk, 
These peculiar forms are raised b 
sowing the spores collected from othe 
Scolopendrium vulgare ramulosissimum. 
these wildings, and there are now some¬ 
thing like four or five hundred forms. 
Some of them are very handsome in¬ 
deed, others are peculiar, while a third 
set of them may be regarded as practi¬ 
cally worthless, except for scientific pur¬ 
poses. The accompanying illustration 
represents a variety that has_^ diverged re¬ 
markably from the original wild form, 
and is at the same time of an ornamental 
character and quite distinct from any 
peculiar, interesting, or abnormal form 
and the sporlings that arise are interes 
ing owing to the great variety of plan 
that may spring from one sowing of tl 
mother plant. The Fern grower watch 
over the development of the sporlings < 
young plants until something uncommc 
arises which gives the Fern lover and cu 
tivator as much delight as a vert' fii 
variety of a flower would stimulate tl 
enthusiasm of the florist. 
Plant Poisoning. 
Formerly it was supposed that the 
reason why the same crop could not be 
grown year after year in the same soil 
was because the plant had taken some¬ 
thing out of the soil, but now it began 
to be mooted that instead of taking some¬ 
thing out it had put something into the 
soil, that it had secreted a poison to 
which other plants might be immune b 
by which the same crop would be dar 
aged. 
Practically the whole of the MistletiL 
at Hampton Court Park, which recent 
made a fine show, grows on the Lin- 
trees. There was also a grand growth 
Mistletoe at Bushev Park. 
