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beds, at about six inches distance each way, where they may 

 stand two years longer, during which time they must be kept con- 

 stantly clean from weeds ; and if the plants have grown well, they 

 will be strong enough to transplant where they are designed to 

 remain ; for when they are transplanted at that age, there will be 

 less danger of their failing, and they will grow to a larger size 

 than those which are removed when they are much larger. But 

 if the ground is not ready to receive them at that time, they 

 should be transplanted into a nursery, in rows, at about two feet 

 distance each way. In case they are designed to be grafted or 

 budded with any of the variegated kinds, that should be performed 

 after the plants have grown one year in this nursery ; but the 

 plants so budded or grafted should continue two years after in the 

 nursery, that they may make good shoots before they are removed. 



Mr. Evelyn says, that the varieties with white berries and gold 

 and silver leaves, may be raised from seed, sown and planted in a 

 gravelly soil; mixed with a portion of chalk, and pressed down 

 hard. Mr. Miller says, also, that he has raised the Hedge-hog 

 Holly from the berries, and always found the plants to continue 

 the same. They are, however, all usually propagated in the nur- 

 series by budding or grafting upon the common Holly. The stocks 

 will be fit to be grafted or budded on at four or five years' growth. 

 The grafting must be done in March, and the budding in July. 



Medical Properties and Uses. The leaves and berries are both 

 used, and somewhat resemble each other in taste. They have a 

 pleasant, corroborant effect upon the stomach ; but, when very 

 largely taken, will purge and vomit. The usual mode of admin- 

 istering it is in decoction, which is made by macerating one ounce 

 of the dried leaves in one quart of diluted alcohol; the dose of 

 which is from fifteen to forty drops, given three or four times a 

 day. That of the powder is from five to ten grains. It can be 

 tinctured, and the spirit evaporated, and thus brought into an ex- 

 tract, one small three grain pill of which is a dose. 



