THE JIOLLV. 
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of the Holmsdale is Holmwood, and still a little further west 
Holmbury. In these places the Holly still grows bravely, not 
far from the old home of John Evelyn, who must be thought of 
whenever we talk of Hollies, though the recollection has to do 
with Sayes Court, his Thames-side house, where the barbarian 
Holly. 
Peter wrought such havoc with his cherished Holly-hedge. How 
Evelyn must have lamented that outrage is indicated in this 
extract from the “ Sylva ” : — 
“ Is there under heaven a more glorious and refreshing object 
of the kind, than an impregnable hedge of about four hundred feet 
in length, nine feet high, and five in diameter, which I can show 
in my now ruined gardens at Say’s Court (thanks to the Czar of 
