
CAPE COD DWARF 
ILEX OPACA (Actual Photograph, Above) 
Along the Atlantic seaboard, notably at Cape Hatteras, N. C., Love Lady (near Bame- 
gat Lighthouse, N. J.), and Cape Cod, Mass., are to be found Hollies quite different from 
the formal BOUNTIFUL described on page three. 
These Hollies, rooted deep in the seashore sand, have not been allowed by nature to 
mature normally. Year by year, heavy storm winds from the ocean have whipped sand 
through these trees and literally cut them off. Hollies a century old are often not over 10 
feet tall. What wonderful trees, each with a grotesque beauty all its own! Transplanted 
in our gardens they would be priceless, but they cannot be safely moved from their sandy 
habitat. Often sand drifts over them year after year until their roots are’ a dozen feet 
under ground. Cuttings from them have proved quite unsatisfactory for, while the resulting 
trees have been stunted like the parents, they are not really worth while until they have 
had time to mature (25-50 years). 
CAPE COD DWARF is different. The parent tree found on Cape Cod, perhaps a hun- 
dred years old, was not unlike a large Pfitzer Juniper. It went the way of countless other 
trees in the hurricane of 1939—-washed completely away. I am now taking cuttings from 
a daughter of this tree, two feet high and six feet wide, age eleven years. 
A distinct novelty offered nowhere else, CAPE COD DWARF is well worth while. 
