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Merry Christmas Improved (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. 

 Bui. 6, p. 35. 1953, without descr.) — select, about 1932 at Boyce Thomp- 

 son Institute, Yonkers, New York; in trod, by E. Dilatush 1942. Galle, 

 Natl. Hort. Mag. 36(1) : 27.1957 — leaves good green; fruits dependable. 



Merry Christmas Upright (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 

 6, p. 24. 1953, without descr.). = CHRISTMAS Carol, Pride of New 

 England. 



Millville (Galle, Natl. Hort. Mag. 36(1) : 27. 1957)— well shaped; fruit 

 light red, oval, in profusion. Select. Cumberland County, New Jersey, 

 in trod, by C. R. Wolf 1954. 



Miss Angie (E. P. Hume and P. Owens, Holly Letter 31, p. 9. 1968 

 without descr.). 



Miss Helen (H. G. Mattoon, Plants & Gardens 3(4) : 238. 1947) —up- 

 right; produces large crop of red berries when quite young; select. 1936 

 by S. H. McLean, Towson, Maryland. Proc. 74th Annual Conv. Amer. 

 Nurs. Assoc, p. 138. 1949 — conical and dense; consistently bearing un- 

 usually large, bright-red fruit; popular as an orchard type; very hardy; 

 named and in trod, by S. H. McLean; Amer. Assoc. Nurs. Registr. No. 

 144, 1948. Hume, "Hollies," p. 62. 1953— conical, densely branched, 

 heavy foliage; leaves coriaceous, rigid, strongly curved and keeled, 

 dark green above, lighter below, often bronze in winter, elliptic, spines 

 short, stout; fruit abundant, early ripening, dark glossy red, ellipsoid, 

 borne singly on reddish pedicels; transplanted 1936 from woods south of 

 Baltimore, Maryland, to the McLean Nurs., Towson, Maryland. 



Miss Martha (Proc. 29th Meeting Holly Soc. Amer. p. 4. I960)— com- 

 pact grower; good foliage and fruit color in winter; a sister seedling to 

 Pin Cushion; female select, by E. S. Wyckoff in J. H. Schmidt Nurs., 

 Millburn, New Jersey; Holly Soc. Amer. Registr. No. 14-60 by E. S. 

 Wyckoff. 



Miss White (Holly Haven Nurs., New Lisbon, New Jersey, Cat. Fall 

 1956, without descr.). 



MONROE (Rocknoll Nurs., Morrow, Ohio, Cat. p. 37. 1961)— wide, vig- 

 orous; leaves large, spiny; female. 



MONTCLAIR (Proc. 46th Meeting Holly Soc. Amer. p. 21. 1969) — dense, 

 fastigiate; leaves very spiny with wavy margins; red, elongate fruit; 

 orig. 1929 from seed grown at Montclair, New Jersey; Holly Soc. Amer. 

 Registr. No. 6-69 by Charles A. Glover, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. 



MONTY (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 35. 1953, without 

 descr.)— select, by W. J. Dauber. Galle, Natl. Hort. Mag. 36(1): 29. 

 1957 — compact, fast growing; leaves with superior color; female; select, 

 in Pennsylvania; orig. about 1937 in Alabama. 



Morgan Gold (Proc. 31st Meeting Holly Soc. Amer. p. 11. 1961)— 

 vigorous, compact; leaves closety set, oval, dark green, keeled with 

 curved blade and 5 to 10 spines; natural yellow-fruited seedling; fruit 



