252 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW JERSEY. 
cedar. The holly thrives here, reaching a much larger size 
than on the mainland, apparently enjoying the moist, salt 
atmosphere and loose cael It is a dune-tree par excellence. 
Its limbs are close and jagged, in striking contrast to the 
pyramidal, symmetrical holly trees of the inland open field. Its. 
prickly foliage is dense and dark green, and its crown is flat. » 
It produces rich red berries in profusion, and its bole is bright 
gray in color, rugged and sturdy. It is not uncommon to find 
two hollies grown together, or the limb of one tree growing 
into another tree, or a limb bending down and uniting with the 
trunk, forming what the natives call “jug-handles.” Those who 
are familiar with the region will never forget these groups of 
hollies, nor the masses of aromatic red cedars with limbs fes- 
tooned with gray lichens. (See plates X XI, XXII and XXIIL) 
There is but little danger lurking in these sand-hills. They 
are, in this respect, unlike the dunes of Gascony, which, if 
robbed of their forests, would bury villages. The Jersey dunes... 
are so wild and picturesque that many prefer to let them have 
their way; but the scenes on these beaches, so attractive and. 
peculiar to-day, are destined to lose much of their charm by | 
being transformed into resorts for recreation and pleasure. 
How lacking in shade and attractiveness are our American 
sea-shore resorts in comparison with those of the Old World! 
Look at Arcachon (see plate XXVIII), for instance, with its 
summer village by the shore and its winter village of beautiful 
villas in the midst of a magnificent pine forest ; or at the famous. 
Dutch resort, Scheveningen, with its beautifully shaded avenues ; 
or Domberg (see plate X XV), or anywhere, in fact, in the lee of 
the dune, which protects the farm-land where the industrious } 
Dutch have beautiful villas in the midst of the woods. Sand-. 
bars and mud-flats should never be despised, and a country close ° 
to the sea enjoys many advantages of which its people are not 
always conscious. - 
The utilization* of the forests of America began with the 
Indian. The Coastal Plain of New Jersey, however, was very 
sparsely inhabited before Europeans landed. Here and there 
along the rivers may be seen the vestiges of Indian villages, pot- 
* One often hears and reads the statement that the branch of forestry called “‘ forest utilization ’ and 
‘Jumbering ’’ are synonymous. This is a mistake in that lumbering is no more forestry than the picking. 
of wild fruits is agriculture. 
