114 KINDS OF TREES, 



THE HOLLY. 



(Ilex aguifolium.*) 



The Holly is one of the moft ornamental trees. 

 It is alfo one of the mod hardy. Befides the 

 common green holly, there are many of its beau- 

 tiful varieties, which arrive at a tree fize, and are 

 peculiarly adapted to the decoration of the lawn. 

 In all ornamental plantations they claim a confpi- 

 cuous place. There is fomething fo extremely 

 cheerful in the Holly, particularly late in autumn, 

 and in winter, that, wherever it appears, it never 

 fails to command attention, and to pleafe. 



The common Holly is often found growing na- 

 turally in woods and forefts, as an underwood to 

 the oak, the am, and the fir ; * in which fituation 

 it appears to great advantage, giving much variety 

 to the fcene. It is, therefore, a moft fit under- 

 wood for the park ; an appropriate accompani- 

 ment 



* The greatest collection of natural Hollies, we ever re- 

 collect to have seen or heard of, grew in the fir forest of 

 Blackball, on the river Dee, about 20 miles above Aber- 

 deen. Many of them were very large and well stemmed. 

 The greater part of this forest has been cut ; - the Holly 

 timber which grew in it was sent to London, and a very 

 Jiigh price was obtained for it. Probably the name Hetty- 

 lank, at Gordon-Castle, points at the existence of such a 

 firest long ago. 



