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Carolina and Virginia: it flowers in July. Ilex cassine, or Dahoon 
Holly, rises with an upright, branching stem, to the height of 
eighteen or twenty feet. The bark of the old stems is of a brown 
color, but that of the younger stems or branches is green and 
smooth. The leaves of this tree are more than four inches long, 
and about one inch and a half broad. This is a native of South 
Carolina and Florida. There are two varieties of the Dahoon 
Holly ; one with broad leaves, the other with narrow leaves, with 
scarcely any serratures. Ilex Asiatica : leaves, broad-lanceolate, 
blunt, quite entire. It is a native of the East Indies. Ilex cnnei- 
folia : leaves wedge-form, three-cusped. It is a native of South 
America. Ilex Integra : leaves oblong, obtuse, entire ; peduncles 
one-flowered. Ilex rotunda : leaves rounded, acute, entire ; pe- 
duncles umbelliferous. Ilex crenate : leaves ovate, crenate ; 
peduncles on the branches, scattered, bearing two or three flowers. 
Ilex cmarginate : leaves obovate, emarginate ; flowers axillary, 
usually in pairs. Ilex serrata : leaves ovate, acute, ciliate, serrate : 
flowers axillary, solitary. It flowers in June. Ilex Japonica : leaves 
opposite, sessile ; flowers in terminating racemes. It flowers in 
April. Ilex latiflia : leaves ovate, serrate ; flowers axillary, aggre- 
gate. Ilex crocea : leaves oblong, serrate ; serratures ciliate-spiny. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Propagation and Culture. Holly is propagated by seeds, 
which never come up the first year, but remain in the ground ; 
therefore the berries should be buried in a large pot or tub one 
year, and then taken up and sown in the autumn upon a bed ex- 
posed to the morning sun. The following spring the plants will 
appear, which must be kept clean from weeds ; and if the spring 
should prove dry, it will be of great service to the plants if they 
are watered once a week ; but they must not have it oftener, nor 
in too great a quantity, as too much moisture is very injurious to 
these plants when young. In this seed-bed the plants may remain 
two years, and then should be transplanted in the autumn, into 
