Other Evergreen Hollies 



feet high and 10 feet through, at Osborne and at 

 Abbotsbury Castle. 



I. opaca, Ait on. In America this occupies the 

 same position that the " Common Holly " does 

 in Europe, and is known under the common 

 names of " American Holly " and " Opaque- 

 leaved Holly." It is widely distributed through 

 the southern and eastern states, New York being 

 given as its most northern and eastern limit It 

 is said to be very common in Carolina, Georgia, 

 Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, and Florida, reach- 

 ing its largest dimensions in the dry Oak woods 

 of Florida, and, according to Sargent, on the 

 bottom lands of streams in S. Arkansas and E. 

 Texas. It is put to much the same uses in 

 America as the " Common Holly " is in England, 

 i.e. ornamental planting, hedges, etc., whilst its 

 economic properties are very similar. 



Under favourable conditions it attains a height 

 of 40 to 45 feet, with a trunk 24 to 36 inches in 

 diameter, but is more frequently met with in a 

 smaller state. The leaves are evergreen, very 

 dull in colour, and vary considerably in size ; the 

 larger ones are from 4 to 4! inches in length, 

 and i \ to if inches in width. The margins are 

 spiny, but the spines are less ferocious than those 

 of I. Aquifolium. On old specimens the upper 

 leaves are sometimes destitute of spines. The 

 flowers are whitish, and succeeded by numerous 

 small, coral red fruits, a well fruited example 



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