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2005.1.14Scope and Content
Author: H. Harold Hume, 1953, Macmillan Company
Well know botanist and horticulturalist sums up fifty years of experience and observation of hollies. Individual hollies are listed by their botanical and common names and their characteristics are defined. Every method of raising holly in the U.S. is discussed (per 1953 standards). English, Chinese and Japanese varieties also discussed. Holly Culture, Propagation and Pollination are presented in detail. Individual growers/developers are associated with their hollies. Elizabeth White is one of these.Collection
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Name of hollies show connections to Whitesbog's history. E. White named Mae in honor of June Vail's mother; Makepeace, no doubt, named for Cranberry grower in Massachusetts. Wolf named one bush Menantico which was the first agricultural colony started by Vineland Training School and model for Four Mile Colony.