180 
Peneane It also has suffered a good deal from vandalism 
ough it is not collected in such large quantities as the holl 
: too is difficult to (oui nate, is sown by birds and Bieter 
moist sandy localitie 
In a leaflet on ee Chris tmas Greens"’ by Beatrix Farrand, 
box of holly, such as we standing outside of the florists 
and grocer’s shops, ‘‘contains a minim ix hundred 
of growth and t one poor yard of laurel-roping uses up at 
sponsible for our share of this destruction.’ rs. Farrand 
suggests that we use mo: bbed or potted trees of holly and 
ere are a number of substitutes which ad by the 
discriminati rgreens in pots, Ardisia crenata, with 
its bright red berries, the Jerusalem cherry, Solanum 
capsicum, dwarf orange trees h oinsettia oO 
er.'’ In Florida at Miami, ae it grows out-of-doors, 
it is a most gorgeous Christmas tre 
are a mber of other species of the ues a 
shh would be welcome and decora Eu- 
plan sis hetero ,* the annual poinsettia, is easily grown from 
three to four years. We have some plants over a foot high grown 
from seed sown in 1920. It seems likely that the warmth of 
the digestive tract of birds is necessary to hasten germination, 
* Addisonia 4: 77-78. Dec. 1919. Plate 159. 
