Laburnum-Hampton Court Gardens, and the Slopes, Windsor Home Park. Common Hazel-Neighbourhood of Godalming, Surrey, and Melverley, Shropshire. The only two places in which I have heard of it. White-thorn Abundant Apple-Very common. every where. Pear-Authority Mr. Loudon - Locality not given. White-beam (Pyrus aria) — Cobham, Kent, in a tree near the Church Yard · very rare. Large leaved Sallow (Salix caprea) - Wood Rising, Norfolk. In the garden of the Rev. A. Roberts. White Willow (Salix alba)-France-De Candolle. Locust-tree (robinia pseudo-acacia) — In im mense abundance at Ampthill, Bedfordshire, also in Stud House grounds, Hampton Court Park. De Candolle mentions it as being found in France. Larch Plentiful at Cold Weston, Shropshire. Scotch Fir-Neighbourhood of Magdeburg in immense quantities- authority, Mr. Loudon. Spruce Fir-France-authority, De Candolle. Ash-Monmouthshire - Rev. I. Herbert, and in France, according to De Candolle. Service (Pyrus domestica) Hooper. - Authority, Dr. Horn-beam (Carpinus ostrya) - Dr. Hooper. (Mr. Loranthus Europæus (itself a parasite.) Pollini in the Flora of Verona. Olive. Vine - Italy - authority, Brassavol. Walnut-France-authority, De Candolle. Common Laurel - In this country. The person who saw it forgets the locality, but his authority may be depended on. Medlar France - authority, De Candolle. A gentleman in Shropshire caused the seeds of the mistletoe to germinate on the oak, several of the pine tribe, cherry, common laurel, Portugal laurel, holly, lime, elms, horn-beam, birch, sycamore, ash, chesnut, hazel, and acacia, as well as the apple, pear, and white thorn tribe. On these latter they continue to grow luxuriantly, but on the resinous trees, they did germinate, but took little or no hold. On the gummy trees they throve a little better, and on the others better still, but on all, except on their usual "foster-nurses," the apple and pear tribe, they soon sickened and died. It appears that the mistletoe has been found more frequently on the oak in England than in France, as Desfontaines mentions that the only instance, which ever came under his notice, is a specimen, with the branch, preserved in the Museum at Paris, and which came from Bourgogne. Many persons suppose that glutinous or viscous seeds must undergo a certain process, such as passing through the stomachs of birds, or being buried for a certain time in heaps, so as to undergo a certain degree of fermentation, before they will vegetate. If, however, the berries of the mistletoe are rubbed upon the branches of trees, when they are quite ripe, which they are between the months of February and April, they may be readily cultivated. Any addition to the above list will be thankfully received, and may be communicated to the Author at the Publisher's. It may be as well to caution my readers not to introduce the mistletoe into their orchards if they have any value for their fruit trees. A Clergyman in Norfolk, to whom I am indebted for much pleasing information, has done this but too successfully. He writes me word that his trees are so full of it, that they form a great portion of the foliage on two or three of them, and the others are much infested with it. He also asks me whether the sex of the mistletoe is likely to be determined by the tree on which it grows.* It is, perhaps, a fact worth mentioning, that the mistletoe has never been known to grow in Ireland. * "The mistletoe grows on the oaks in the Peninsula of India”See Murray's Demonstration of Evidence of Revelation, p. 241, ed. 1840. The same friend, who has pointed out the above passage to my notice, also observes, that in the correspondence of the late Sir James Smith (1, p. 460) is the following account of this plant:-"The oaks in the Arcadian mountains presented them with the true ancient mistletoe (loranthus Europæus,) while our misseltoe (viscum album) grows only on the silver fir." See also Tournefort's Tour in the Levant, vol. 3, p. 279. A dissertation on the medicinal properties of the misseltoe was published in 1729, by Sir John Albatch; and a treatise on Epilepsy, and the use of the viscus quercinus, or mistletoe of the oak, in the cure of that disease, by Henry Fraser, M.D. 1806. See also Plinii Nat. Hist. Lib. xvi. 95. The mistletoe must grow on the oak in the Morea, as it is called in Laconia iiodpvc. This is the viscum album. This plant grows on Parnassus, and is gathered by the herdsmen as food for the labouring oxen it is called by the modern Greeks μέλλα. See Walpole's Memoirs of European Turkey, p. 281; and Falconer's tracts on Natural History, from the Writers of Antiquity, 4to. 1793. The loranthus is called ogos; a name wrongly given by Linnæus to the viscum See Falconer (Tab. Alt.) p. 189. E 'Tis love creates their melody, and all Try ev'ry winning way inventive love Can dictate, and in courtship to their mates, Pour forth their little souls. THOMSON. MUCH has been written respecting the song of birds, some attributing it to one cause, and some to another. The following interesting and authentic anecdote may, perhaps, throw some light on the subject. A gentleman of my acquaintance had an American Mocking-bird, in such health and vigour, that it was either constantly singing, or else imitating the various sounds it heard. In order to try the powers of this bird, its owner purchased a fine sky-lark. When placed in the same room with the mocking-bird, the song of the former was heard to echo through the house, as if it were chaunting "on fluttering wing" its well known welcome to the rising sun. The mocking-bird was silent for some time, but at last burst forth in the strains of the "aerial songster," but louder and clearer, as if mounting and stretching its wings towards heaven. The lark was silent from |