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NOTE1850

Mistletoe on Oaks

By GEORGE ORMEROD. (Sedbury Park, Chepstow)

In Vol. ii., p. 163., I observed a citation on the extreme rarity of *mistletoe on oaks*, from Dr. Giles and Dr. Daubeny; and with reference to it, and to some remarks of Professor Henslow in the *Gardeners' Chronicle*, I communicated to the latter journal, last week, the fact of my having, at this present time, a bunch of that plant growing in great luxuriance on an oak aged upwards of seventy years. I beg leave to repeat it for the use of your work, and to add, what I previously appended as likely to be interesting to the archæologist of Wales or the Marches, that the oak bearing it stands a…

Topics: Mistletoe on Oaks, Archaeology, Botany

Locations: Wales, Marches, Badamscourt, Beachley, Llanllowell