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\\. NOX-CONIFEROUS EVERGKEEXS. 



I. The Holly {Ilex aquifolium). 



]\Iany hollies branch near the ground, when measurement 

 at 5 ft. is impracticable. But some have an appreciable 

 bole, and enter the class of smaller forest trees. Only nine 

 in Mr. Hutchison's list attain 45 ft. in heioht, the highest 

 being 52 ft.; and only three attain 10 ft. in girth at their 

 narrowest, the biggest being 12 ft. G in. But a holly at 

 Clochfaen, Llanidloes, N. Wales, girths 30 ft. above the 

 roots ; two of its si.xteen main branches, which spring from 

 near the ground, girth 11 ft. 7 in. and 8 ft. 2 in. ; height, 

 43 ft. ; branch spread, 54 ft. Another holly in the same 

 valley girths 17 ft. 6 in. at the ground (Col. G. H. Lloyd- 

 Verney, 1893). 



Hollies above 7 ft. in girth. From Mr. Hutchison's Table of 

 89 Scottish hollies (Trans. IT. and Agr. Soc. of Scot., 1892). 



