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seeds from northern localities. The young trees grown from 
seeds from southern localities are not hardy when set out at 
the North. 
In Rhodora! the range of the holly in New England is indi- 
cated. The old Essex County station at Cape Ann has been 
gone since 1880, “but in some localities it is still abundant and 
fruits well; whereas in other oe es there are only scattering 
and badly-hacked trees.” It occ also on Cape Cod and 
sparingly on Nantucket and in Ge. pee ae of Rhode 
of the Connecticut botanists who should be in position to know, 
I have yet to get track of a single living wild specimen, growing 
either native or as an escape.’ 
In Maryland and Virginia the holly and laurel are gathered 
and brought in to market, largely by the negro population, and 
r and pass 
The laurel is used in summer a: st winter and the 
wild cherry is a good substitute for alee fruit-stands, etc. 
ew England Society for the Prot n of Native Plants 
substitute for the laurel but perhaps the hemlock (Tsuga cana- 
densis) would be better. 
The winterberry, also of the holly ae (Ilex glabra) has 
approximately the same range though extending farther inland 
wa 
of Halifax, then sides two hundred and seventy-five miles to 
Cape Ann, Massachusetts, and ranges southward to Florida and 
1 Rhodora 16: 163-165. 1914 and 21: 126. 1919. 
