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) 