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Carolina and Virginia: it flowers in July. Ilex cassine, or Dahoon 

 Holly, rises with an upright, branching stem, to the height of 

 eighteen or twenty feet. The bark of the old stems is of a brown 

 color, but that of the younger stems or branches is green and 

 smooth. The leaves of this tree are more than four inches lontr, 

 and about one inch and a half broad. This is a native of South 

 Carolina and Florida. There are two varieties of the Dahoon 

 Holly ; one with broad leaves, the other with narrow leaves, with 

 scarcely any serratures. Ilex Asiatica : leaves, broad-lanceolate, 

 blunt, quite entire. It is a native of the East Indies. Ilex cunei- 

 folia : leaves wedge-form, three-cusped. It is a native of South 

 America. Ilex integra : leaves oblong, obtuse, entire ; peduncles 

 one-flowered. Ilex rotunda : leaves rounded, acute, entire ; pe- 

 duncles umbelliferous. Hex crenate : leaves ovate, crenate ; 

 peduncles on the branches, scattered, bearing two or three flowers. 

 Ilex emarginate : leaves obovate, emarginate ; flowers axillary, 

 usually in pairs. Ilex serrata : leaves ovate, acute, ciliate, serrate : 

 flowers axillary, solitary. It flowers in June. Hex Japonica : leaves 

 opposite, sessile ; flowers in tei-minating racemes. It flowers in 

 April. Ilex latijlia : leaves ovate, serrate ; flowers axillary, aggre- 

 gate. Ilex crocea : leaves oblong, serrate ; serratures ciliate-spiny. 

 Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



Propagation and Culture. Holly is propagated by seeds, 

 which never come up the first year, but remain in the ground ; 

 therefore the berries should be buried in a large pot or tub one 

 year, and then taken up and sown in the autumn upon a bed ex- 

 posed to the morning sun. The following spring the plants will 

 appear, which must be kept clean from weeds ; and if the spring 

 should prove drj', it will be of great service to the plants if they 

 are watered once a week ; but they must not have it oftener, nor 

 in too great a quantity, as too much moisture is very injui-ious to 

 these plants when young. In this seed-bed the plants may remain 

 two years, and then should be transplanted in the autumn, into 



