V 



THE HOLLIES AS TOWN TREES 



THE evergreen Hollies, more particu- 

 larly the " Common Holly" and its 

 varieties, form an exceptionally useful 

 group for town planting, and the pro- 

 prietors of private gardens as well as municipal 

 bodies would do well to give them special 

 attention. Unfortunately, municipal bodies are 

 not usually endowed with the collecting spirit 

 where trees and shrubs are concerned, and 

 instead of them setting about the formation of 

 really good collections of these items in the parks 

 under their control, they content themselves with 

 planting large quantities of a few things which 

 are more often than not the most everyday 

 subjects imaginable. Parks planted with a 

 judicious selection of good trees and shrubs 

 would be infinitely more interesting than many 

 are at the present time ; the expense would not 

 be great, if a nursery for raising young stock 

 was attached to the parks of each town, and 

 future generations would be benefited by fine 

 examples of rare trees instead of common ones. 

 Every town, in fact, might have a really good 



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