A. Rosa Misriwroz.
A correspondent sends me a photograph of a large and flourishing bunch of mistletoe growing on a rose bush. It is remarkable that the shoot of the rose always dies above- the place where the mistletoe springs, but the rest of the tree appears to be little damaged. Another correspondent records the discovery of mistletoe on a holly tree at Dings Pyon =tit Hereford. This, curiously enough, is in the neighbour- hood of the only oak on which I happen to have seen the mistletoe ; and it is said that nearly all the examples of this particular association are in Herefordshire. The mistletoe, of course, is not a• full parasite. It is green and manufactures its own chlorophyl, so need not, and I think does not, inflict much damage on its host. Some frees certainly endure it as' gladly as they endure ivy. W. BEACH THOMAS.
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