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A PERSONAL WORD 
When I began to grow American Hollies more than 20 years ago, 
nurserymen raised only a few and little was written about the culture 
of this wonderful native. I had to learn the hard way, through practical 
experience. Almost from the very beginning certain factors became pro- 
gressively more evident, perhaps the most important, that my stock was 
not as hardy as desired. 
Southern material, although fine looking, did not do well. Hollies 
brought in from the swamps and woodlands of New Jersey and Massa- 
chusetts, as a whole, did little better. You see, my Hollies have to be 
able to ‘take it," for I grow everything in open fields exposed to full sun 
and wind. 
Success started when I found that Hollies transplanted to my fields 
from exposed places did much better than most of those from protected 
swamps. 
The immediate result was that my work seemed much harder be- 
cause only a few plants were available where before I had had ihou- 
sands to choose from. Slowly, year by year, however, my stock has 
grown stronger and more hardy. This is proven by the fact that Hollies 
I have sold are doing well with proper care in Maine, around Lake 
Winnepasaukee, N. H., at Keene, N. H., Lake Placid, N. Y., in the Cats- 
kills, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and hundreds of far northern places where Holly 
has never been grown before. 
There are many excellent Hollies among the thousands that make 
up the nine acres I have growing on my farm. Six of the very best have 
been named and a very brief story of each appears on the following 
pages. They represent the greatest advance ever made in American 
Hollies. Each is different from the other but all can be described with 
just one word—Hardy. 
EARLE DILATUSH. 
CARDINAL—Heaviest bearer known. Very compact slow grower, fruits when young. My 
best seller. Massachusetts. 
BOUNTIFUL—Heavy berry bearer, compact grower, best money maker on record. Dark 
green leaves. Hardy. New Jersey. 
MERRY CHRISTMAS—Good grower, best all round Holly. Very hardy. Has been tried all 
over the country. Lots of exceptionally large bright berries and large dark green leaves. 
New Jersey. Parent tree now in Catskill Mountains. 
OLD HEAVY BERRY—The Holly I like best of all. Very tough. Leaf heavy, dark, larger 
than most. Lots of berries every year. Fine grower, bears when very young. Has excep- 
tional root system. New Jersey. 
CAPE COD DWARF—Low, flat. real dwarf, no other like it. Best novelty for rock garden. 
Good berries and leaf. Very hardy. Cape Cod, Massachusetts. 
BITTERSWEET—Beautiful in late fall. Different from all others. Berries orange in October, 
red in winter. Heavy bearer. Good, large, flat leaf. Hardy. Massachusetts. 
Prices of above named Hollies: l-year rooted cuttings in pots, $1.00 net. 2-year grafts, 
Old Heavy Berry and Merry Christmas only, pots, $2.00 net. 
Hundreds of good unnamed nursery-grown Hollies up to 28 feet at reasonable prices. 
