SOME OTHER TREES 



in leaf — grow all along the Atlantic sea-board, 

 from Maine to Florida, and are especially 

 plenty south of Maryland and Delaware. There 

 is one superb specimen in Trenton, New 

 Jersey's capital, which is of 

 the typical form, and when 

 crowded with scarlet berries 

 it is an object of great 

 beauty. One reason why 

 many of us have not seen 

 holly growing in the wild 

 is that it seems to prefer 

 the roughest and most inac- 

 cessible locations. Years ago 

 I was told that I might 

 see plenty of holly growing 

 freely in the Pennsylvania 

 county of my home. "But," 

 my informant added, "you will 

 need to wear heavy leather 

 trousers to get to it!" The 

 nurserymen are removing this difficulty by 

 growing plants of all the hollies — American, 

 Japanese, English and Himalayan — so that they 

 may easily be set in the home grounds, with 



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Leaves and 

 berries of the 

 American holly 



