Mistletoe harvest should be well underway 2

The traditional European harvest has always been centred on northern France - where most of Britain's mistletoe comes from. The pic below is a press photograph of about 1930 - showing harvest by costumed Normandy lads and lasses. There was an added incentive to harvest mistltoe in france - as its growth had been declared illegal in orchards - but in this pic they seem to have let it grow fairly large before harvesting - which suggests a rather lax law!

Compare this pic with the one below...

French harvesting for export to England c 1930 (click to enlarge)