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a few trees left, of the many that used to be found on the hill 
near Richmond and in the cedars which formerly occupied the 
Hewlett, Fire Island Beach, Wadi iver, Smithtown, Ama- 
gansett, Montauk and doubtless at other places, but reports 
have been recently received that i inter time, en the 
owners are not t to guard them, the trees are often cut 
down or mutil ond recovery! It can be obtained from 
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the Hicks Nurseries at Westbury, Long Island, and they have 
several hundred plants, two to three feet high, at four ee 
each or thirty dollars for ten. According to Britton and Brown, 
it is only a question of a few years when this tree will be almost 
or quite Regs exterminated. 
Profess . T. Cook states that in Ocean and Monmouth 
County, New i holly is still found wild in sufficient quantity 
law against the neietee bee There are a few fine trees in 
pa ree of bot. saa rican and English holly at Bur- 
b ,wh re) 
states that in Bucks and Delaware Counties, Pennsylvania, 
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ern Pines, North Carolina, finds that seedling holly trees for 
growing in the northeastern States must be propagated from 
