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a well kept garden. The Dahoon 

 holly is very distinct from both, dense 

 in growth, the foliage small, and it 

 rarely attains to a greater height than six 

 or seven feet, whereas aquifolium will grow 

 twenty feet and more, and the Minorca 

 twelve or fifteen. Canariensis and Cassine 

 are distinct and useful kinds, of robust 

 habit and admirable for specimens ; others 



it will, as in the case of sweet bays, euony- 

 mus, etc., be years before fine specimens 

 can he again got up. We must live in 

 hope, and be thankful that we have so 

 many handsome evergreens, which neither 

 the excessi/e wet nor subsequent frost have 

 injured in the slightest. Lastly, let me 

 add, as a rare beauty. Ilex Sheppardii, of 

 which I have tAvo beauiiful .':pecimens, 



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of different degrees of interest are dipyvena 

 the two-seeded holly, laxiflora, which pro- 

 duces its flowers in loose bundles, opaca, 

 recurva, and vomitoria. Ilex latilblia, 

 with leaves of immense size, regularly ser- 

 rated, and disposed in the most regular 

 manner, was one of the noblest of our 

 hardy evergreen shrubs. Alas ! that we 

 should say " was ;" the last winter cut the 

 trees to pieces, and though it is not lost, 



supplied four years since by Mr. Standisli 

 I have nowhere met with this, and it is 

 evidently but little known. The leaves are 

 large, broad, distinctly spined, and their 

 colouris deep blue green, distinct altogether 

 from what we commonly understand by 

 " dark green," and the growth is as quick 

 as the quickest of this slow family. The 

 habit of this holly is to form rather dif- 

 fusely spreading bushes, as it continually 



