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Show Where Mictlctoe Grows. In addition to all the many kinds of oak trees and t-he maples, mistletoe grows with persistency and fondness on the paper mulberry, the persimmon, ; locust, ash, gum, sassafras, elm, osagu orange, pecan, hickory, cherry, pear j and apple trees. In the far west it . takes hold of the cedar anil the piny j trees, especially the yellow pine lodge-pole lodge-pole pine and Douglas fir. The plant is j widely distributed by birds, which eat I the whitish-green semltransparent 1 berries, those birds being mostly mock- j lngblrds, cardinals, cedar wax-wings j and sparrows. The robins have something some-thing to do with the distribution of tho seed. The pulp of the berries Ih j very sticky, and when they become overripe they fall from the parent sprig and stick to some other part of the tree, thus developing another sprig of mistletoe. The department of agriculture agri-culture considers the mistletoe a pest and has Inveighed against It, Vut tha TMdlctoe still nourishes. |