OF ORNAMENTAL TREES. 135 



September. Buds take best on two year old 

 wood. 



There are several beautiful varieties intro- 

 duced, as well as many others that deserve 

 to be. Amongst the former are the ferox, 

 having its leaves a nest of spiny bristles; 

 the golden-leaved, and silver-edged. The old 

 catalogues of foreign nurserymen reckon 

 over forty varieties. 



2. I. OPACA, Aiton. Leaves ovate, acute, 

 flat, smooth, spiny. Flowers at the base of 

 last season's shoots. American holly. Na- 

 tive of the Middle and Southern States. 



It is rather nice in its choice of soils, 

 refusing unconditionally to "do good' 7 in 

 cold, wet, or clayey ones. In a deep rich 

 loam it can scarcely be excelled by any ever- 

 green I know ; and it will grow in dry or 

 barren places. It is seldom of so dark a hue 

 as No. 1; but that contrasts as well with its 

 light-red berries. The best Bartram speci- 

 men is thirty-two feet high, by forty inches 

 in circumference at the base. 



Propagation. See No. 1. 



3. I. VOMITORIA, Alton. Leaves alternate, 

 distant, oblong, somewhat blunt, serrate, not 



