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good plants, they can only be increafed by budding or grafting 

 them on the plain green kind, in both which ways they will 

 readily fucceed ; but their variegation by other means, is a fport 

 in nature no art has as yet been able to imitate. 



I HAVE raifed the different kinds of Hollies from layers, and 

 even from cuttings : But I recommend neither ; they are not only 

 extremely tedious methods, but I never was able to make good 

 plants from them. 



The timber of the Holly is exceeding hard, and of all 

 flrong wood the whitefl : It is ufeful for many lafting pur- 

 pofes ; the mill-wright, turner, and engraver, prefer it to any o- 

 ther ; it makes the beft handles and flocks for tools, flails, 

 bowls, bolts for doors, nay they even make hinges of it inftead 

 of iron, and it is fo heavy, that, like iron, it finks in water,. 



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