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Columnar Cardinal (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 

 25. 1953, in syn.). = Old Faithful, Cardinal Column, Cardinal 



COLUMNARIS, COLUMNARIS. 



Columnaris (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 23. 1953, 

 in syn.). = Old Faithful, Cardinal Column, Cardinal Column- 

 aris, Columnar Cardinal. 



Convexa (Tingle Nurs., Pittsville, Maryland, Cat. p. 17. Fall 1958- 

 Spring 1959, without descr.). 



Cottage Hill (McKee's Nurs., Covington, Louisiana, Cat. p. 16. 1960- 

 61, without descr.). 



Craighead (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 25. 1953, 

 without descr.) — a W. W. Steiner select, from New York. 



Crimson Tide (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 25. 1953, 

 without descr.) — orig. H. Hohman, Kingsville Nurs., Kingsville, 

 Maryland. 



CRINKLELEAF (Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 25. 1953, 

 without descr.) — select, about 1932 at Boyce Thompson Institute, 

 Yonkers, New York, and in trod. 1948 by E. Dilatush. 



CROONENBERG (Tingle Nurs., Pittsville, Maryland, Cat. 1937, without 

 descr.). Greenbrier Farms, Norfolk, Virginia, Cat. p. 6. 1940 — leaves 

 large, spiny; fruits at a young age. Hume, Natl. Hort. Mag. 26(3) : 

 169. 1947 — columnar; leaves elliptic, curved, coriaceous, dark, glossy 

 green above, lighter below; fruit bright red, globose; original tree 

 transplanted to Greenbrier Farms in Norfolk, Virginia; S. H. Thrasher 

 of Greenbrier Farms provided the following information to H. Hume 

 that the original tree was disco v. in an old garden belonging to Mr. 

 Croonenberg on Lynnhaven Bay, Virginia, and was sold to Greenbrier 

 Farms in 1934; the Croonenberg family maintained that it was a hybrid 

 between the American and English holly, both of which grew in the 

 garden; the original tree CROONENBERG, is apparently bisexual and 

 bears both male and female flowers at a ratio of 10 females to 1 male 

 and has never failed to fruit profusely; orig. plant moved to Greenbrier 

 Nurs. 1937. Hume, "Hollies," p. 53. 1953 — compact, columnar; leaves 

 curved, keeled, very stiff, coriaceous, dark green, oval, spines krge, 

 divaricate; fruit dark red, ellipsoid, borne singly on pink pedicels. 

 Wister and others, Holly Soc. Amer. Bui. 6, p. 25. 1953, without descr. — 

 introd. 1934 by S. H. Thrasher, Greenbrier Farms; discov. and select, 

 by W. Bennett and C. A. Sorg on estate of Aristides Croonenberg, 

 Lynnhaven Bay, near Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. Croonenberg claimed to 

 have brought the plant from Europe. Galle, Natl. Hort. Mag. 36(1) : 22. 

 1957 — compact, upright, leaves deep green, less spiny than average; 

 fruit fair size, scarlet; annual bearing. 



Cross (Watnong Nurs., Morris Plains, New Jersey, Cat. p. 3. 1962, male 

 without descr.) . = Tom Cross. 



