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Show HOLLY MAY SOON BE EXTINCT Popular Christmas Decoration ll Growing Less Bountiful Each Year, According to Reports. Christmas holly, that merriest anri most beloved of all growing bushes is threatened with extinction, according accord-ing lo a warning sounded by lovers of n red Christmas. Once growing profusely in southern New Jersey anc Maryland. It has been swept froir rhose states by the ru!ess citter for the city markets, and mtsf im be sought In the swamps of Virginia and North Carolina, where already Ihe supply Is growing less bountifu each year. The Gulf states have beei similarly shorn to make holiday foi the large cities. Within another generation, botnnlsti say. holly will be as rare as mistletoe which used to grow In abundance oi ihe Atlantic seaboard, as far north a: Uarllnn bay, but bau now practical! ceased to exist as a Christmas dec oration. When will Ihe America! people Ion i-ii that the bounty of theli lields and woodbinds Is not limitless' Willi sinking hearts nature loven pea ranee 01 "in ncnrnie Trainng of butus, flower of ihe Pilgrim mnldeni from all woods near large cities. Tin mountain laurel, which once swept tin bills of .June wiih pale pink drifti like naughty clouds running awa; from the sunset, has now retreatet to the remote mountain sides. Nev York Tribune. |