The holly tree needs protection

IN recent years, it has become ever more difficult to find holly if you go looking for it in the countryside. Yet, in national parks and woodlands, you can see where trees have been savaged and almost cut down in a cavalier way, obviously for sale later.

Nowadays in the run-up to Christmas, it is commonplace to see bunches of holly for sale on the streets and at various markets, which clearly have been cut in a crude way.