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older ground. Before the year was over, the Hollies 
showed clearly the line where the old field ended and 
the results were the opposite of the corn crop. 
This and many other things finally convinced me 
that I was working backward with Holly, one incident 
was the clinching argument. I had moved several hun- 
dred Hollies from a woods 40 miles away and had 90 
more trees dug when the owner suddenly decided that 
my contract did not suit him and forbade my taking 
more from his property. I could not let the trees die, so 
I grouped them together on the north side of the woods 
and covered their roots with leafmold. This was in 
the Spring. In the Fall I felt I had to see those trees. 
Believe it or not, only three were dead and the remain- 
der, although they had grown but little, looked better 
than the others I had planted. 
Good Results Everywhere 
Years of work at home and the results obtained from 
hundreds of plantings made on nearby estates, together 
with the reports from persons who have bought Holly 
and planted it according to my directions in widely 
scattered sections of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New 
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hamp- 
shire, prompt me to repeat without qualification that 
ib Oak Leafmold is the best medium in the world for 
~ Hollies. 
_ Use plenty. Let the cost be your only guide, for you 
_ can hardly use too much. I am growing small Hollies 
in almost pure Oak Leafmold and their root system is 
__ wonderful. Collected Hollies, which many nurserymen 
feel never can be made to grow well have, on soil made 
up mostly of Oak Leafmold, grown roots in five years 
_ that compare favorably with the best any one can show. 
A year or so ago a man who has a fine home in one 
of our New Jersey coast towns wrote, asking me to look 
at his Hollies. I found 22 magnificent old trees, which, 
as one of my men put it, showed their age. Rather 
__ timidly I suggested the use of Oak Leafmold with a 
little cottonseed meal and ground tobacco stems added ; 
the trees were yellow and looked sick. The owner said, 
‘ et trust you” and we went to work. Recently I took 
a trip to see the trees, as I had had no report on their 
_ condition. The results were amazing—far beyond any- 

thing I had hoped for. The dark green foliage and red 
__ berries made a beautiful sight. 
A Failure and the Cause 
_ At one time I was puzzled because persons who knew 
“Tittle about horticulture, brought back glowing reports 
on ee Hollies, while others, who knew much more 

