. The American entomologist. Entomology. 284 THE AMBRICAK" oval ill outline, with several short, stiff, prickly teeth scattered on the edge. Close around the stem and among the leaves are five or six dull red berries, about the size of peas. The Holly is a small tree growing near the seacoast from Maine to Florida; not common, however, to the North. It attains a height of from twenty to forty feet. Our botanical works do not mention the occurrence of the tree so far from the seacoast as the specimen from Vicks- burg. Oui tiee closeh lesembles the European Ilolh, but difleis in '!C\eial pa
. The American entomologist. Entomology. 284 THE AMBRICAK" oval ill outline, with several short, stiff, prickly teeth scattered on the edge. Close around the stem and among the leaves are five or six dull red berries, about the size of peas. The Holly is a small tree growing near the seacoast from Maine to Florida; not common, however, to the North. It attains a height of from twenty to forty feet. Our botanical works do not mention the occurrence of the tree so far from the seacoast as the specimen from Vicks- burg. Oui tiee closeh lesembles the European Ilolh, but difleis in '!C\eial particulars: the )>*. llollj {Ilix aquafolium, L.) leaves are not so wavy in outline, less glossy, and the berries of a darker color. We have a specimen from Florida, in which the leaves are smaller, obovate or almost wedge form, and with teeth only near the summit. In an article recently published in the Journal of Agriculture ou the Holly, the writer, Mr. J. Parish Stelle, assumes that the Holly of the Gulf States and the Mississippi Valley is the Ilex aquifolium, L., identical with the European tree, and tliat it differs from the Holly of the Atlantic coast. This is a question wliich must be decided by careful observation, and tlie pre- paration of good botanical specimens. We com- mend tliis work to the attention of our botanical friends in the South. Sometimes an inch of water falls in a day, or even in a single shower. This is equivalent to about three hundred and sixty hogsheads to | the acre. I THE LEAP AS A WORKER—No. 2. But if we regard the leaf only as a drawer of water, a lifter of earthy matter, a carrier of lightning, a gatherer of nourishing gases, a de- fense against zymotic diseases, we give it an inferior place—it is only a humble, common laborer. Man might invent and apply machinery to pump the water and evaporate it; he can enrich the soil, can put on his roof metallic con- ductors, and can escape epidemic diseases if he will breathe ^jJM'e «(>. &qu
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