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Rappahannock County is well supplied with Christmas green-trees, shrubs, and trailing vines.
It has pine trees of various kinds, native as well as some that have been imported, along with spruce and fir. It has hemlock and cedar and holly, tree and bush, and laurel. Magnolias and camelias. which can stand the loss of a branch or two as Christmas offerings. It has ivy, and running ground cedar, which my daughter, who has studied biology, says is properly called lycopodium, or wolf foot, and may be protected species, if not an endangered one. In any case, she warns, one should use it carefully, perhaps to wrap a stair rail, or drape a door, but not wastefully in wreaths.
All of these greens have an accepted place in Christmas present, and most of them were accepted in Christmases past, although a few had to be purged of minor pagan identifications and associations before they were accepted into the Christian celebration. Most have gone beyond that acceptance and have become secularized by advertisers.
Holly and ivy were depaganized centuries ago by church action. There remains one Christmas green which still lives without church blessing. It is not common in Rappahannock, but it is present. If one watches carefully, and knows what to look for (or is alert to what seems out of place or time) he may see it in a few places, usually in oak trees, along route 522 and along route 231. and along lesser roads of the county. It is mistletoe. I hesitate to call it a plant for
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