. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. \^.*-JLA |^j| m jPWM^HBIJ i ?^ >.^f k\ ^Khmm m ^m m 1 -5? w ? §§ ^^-•^i*^. >^.^i .^^^? 48 1^^^ AMERICAN HOLLY. Ilex opaca Fig. 365. Branchlet with leaves and fruit, i ; detached fruit and nutlets. 366. Large trunk in eastern North Carolina. 367. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Trees of the Noktiiekn States and Canada. 313 The Holly is a beautiful evergreen, whoseleaves and bright berries add to the cheer ofChristmas-time in almost every home through-out the l
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. \^.*-JLA |^j| m jPWM^HBIJ i ?^ >.^f k\ ^Khmm m ^m m 1 -5? w ? §§ ^^-•^i*^. >^.^i .^^^? 48 1^^^ AMERICAN HOLLY. Ilex opaca Fig. 365. Branchlet with leaves and fruit, i ; detached fruit and nutlets. 366. Large trunk in eastern North Carolina. 367. Wood structure magnified 15 diameters. Handbook of Trees of the Noktiiekn States and Canada. 313 The Holly is a beautiful evergreen, whoseleaves and bright berries add to the cheer ofChristmas-time in almost every home through-out the land, and are familiar objects to manywho do not have an opportunity of seeing agrowing tree, though a common object in theforests of the Southern States. There it attains the height of 40 or 50 ft. with a narrowpyramidal top of many horizontal or droopinglateral branches and a smooth-barked trunkoccasionally 2 or 3 ft. (rarely more) in diame-ter. It occupies well-drained slopes and bottom-lands in company with various Oaks and Hick-ories, the Red Cedar, Whitewood, Magnolias,Hornbeam, etc., rarely if ever forming exclu-sive forests. Few trees equal it in ornamentalvalue, especially in late autumn and winter,when its associates are m
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