Holly grows easily and fast... 
an evergreen of lasting beauty 
When an eight inch Holly is planted correctly, out- 
doors, in favorable soil, it will make six to nine inches 
of annual growth the first two or three years. Later it 
may grow a soaring whip two or three feet high in a 
single summer. Don’t disturb this, but if more than 
one such whip should start remove all but the strong- 
est one. After one or two years of such rapid growth 
the strength of the plant will be divided among more 
and more branch tips and increase in height will be 
more moderate. Our babies will become specimens of 
beauty and size quicker than you expect. 
Hollies are male and female. Only the females pro- 
duce berries. One male will pollinate at least ten 
females. 
Our Hollies are grown from cuttings. Each plant 
from a cutting has exactly the same qualities as the 
beautiful tree from which it came. If grown from seed 
it would be years before you could tell its sex. 
Sex may be determined easily by the blossoms. The 
females have a single flower, rarely two or three on a 
stem. Each flower has a tiny green berry in its center 
