This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V27", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A Wilmington, N. C, correspondent says: "I send you by this mail a fruiting specimen of Ilex myrtifolia with yellow berries. The small tree I have removed to my yard to be able to examine it in flower. All the berries on the tree are yellow, and there is no evidence of red berries except around a few small insect wounds I saw on two or three of them. I thought you would be interested in the first find of a yellow holly".
[This is the first instance of yellow berries we have had before us of a yellow berried form, in this pretty species of holly. The English holly has yellow berried varieties. - Ed. G. M].
 
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