TREES AND SHRUBS 



Hex crenata. 



Gardens. May. A dwarf shrub of compact habit and slow growth, but 

 sometimes rising to a height of 20 ft,, and having the general appearance 

 of a Box-tree. The black fruit in autumn adds materially to the beauty 

 of the plant. It strikes readily from cuttings in autumn. 



Flowers white ; peduncles drooping, scattered along the branches, usually 

 3 flowered ; Fruit a drupe, black. 



Leaves alternate, ovate, obtuse, crenate, revolute, light green and lustrous, 

 usually under 1 in. long. 



An evergreen shrub, 3-4 ft. or sometimes 10-20 ft. ; much branched. 



A native of Japan ; there the most widely distributed, and most popular, 

 of all the Hollies, being often used as a hedge plant. 



HIMALAYAN HOLLY, Ilex dipyrena. 



Gardens. A species with very distinctive Willow-like leaves, hardly 

 wavy, with short spiny teeth. April, May. 



Floxvers white, small, £ in. diam. ; sub-sessile in axillary, sub-globular 

 fascicles ; pedicels short, stout ; Calyx 4-partite ; Petals 4 ; Stamens 4 ; Ovary 

 2-celled, or rarely 3-4-celled ; Fruit a drupe, \ in. long, dark brown 2-seeded. 



Leaves elliptical-lanceolate, mucronate, entire or remotely spiny-serrated, 

 hardly wavy, dull green, shortly petiolate, 31 ins. long, 1 in. wide. 



An evergreen shrub, 12 ft. ; Brauehlets angular. 



Introduced from N. India, 1840. Specific name from Gr. di, twice, and 

 pyren, pyrenos, a kernel, a fruit-stone, referring to the 2-seeded fruit. 



AMERICAN HOLLY, Ilex opaca. 



Parks, gardens. May, June. 



Flowers white, dioecious; Male flowers in short peduncullate 3-9 flowered 



cymes, axillary, or scattered on base of young shoots; Females 1-3 flowered; 



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