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for a lifetime, changing the tone of the whole scheme every year, which 

 will be vastly preferable to the present system of endless and weari- 

 some repetition of the same colours, in the same places, in the same 

 proportions, and perhaps in the same execrable taste, from year to year, 

 as if the world had but two plants and one idea; the plants Tom Thumb 

 and Aurea floribunda, and the idea that of using them side by side ex- 

 pressly to torture those whose refined taste compels them to look for har- 

 monious arrangements of colours. S. H. 



THE IVY. 



(An Abridgment of a Paper read before the Central Society of Horticulture.) 

 BY SHIRLEY HIBBEBD, ESQ., E.E.H.S. 



(Concluded from page 59.) 



'Variegated Climbing forms ofH. helix. 



37. Aurea maculata. — A free- 

 growing climbing ivy, leaves broadJy 

 triangular, and irregularly spotted 

 and clouded with dull yellow. 



38. Aurea densa. — Leaves three- 

 lobed, occasionally slightly dessucate, 

 dull green ground, clouded and spot- 

 ted with dull greenish-yellow. 



39. Aurea densa minor. — A small 

 edition of 38. 



40. Auruntiaca. — A fast-growing 

 variety, with leaves resembling the 

 type in outline, but the young growth 

 is almost wholly of a bright orange 

 colour, which loses its intensity and 

 becomes more and more green as the 

 leaves get old. 



41. Minor marmorata elegans. — 

 Leaves small, nearly equal, triangular, 

 elegantly veined and marbled with 

 whitish vegetation. 



42. Palmaia aurea. — Occasionally 

 blotched with orange and red in the 

 centre of the leaf, as if punctured by 

 an insect. This is tolerably pretty, 

 but not very distinct or striking. 



43. Japonica argentea. — Leaves 

 varying in shape from a regular 

 triangle with wedge-shaped terminal 

 lobe and small blunt side lobes, to an 

 unequal and irregular triangle ; the 

 edge of the leaf slightly marked with 

 amber. A neat and free-growing 

 variety. 



44. Marginata argentea. — There 

 are numerous forms of this beautiful 



variety, all of them variously mar- 

 gined with creamy, silvery, and yel- 

 low variegation. All the varieties 

 of marginata are worth cultivating, 

 whether on walls, in pots, or as 

 marginal lines for ribbons, beds, or 

 terrace verges. They grow with 

 tolerable rapidity, and show their 

 colours best when fully exposed to 

 sunshine, and in a comparatively poor 

 soil. Where it is thought the soil 

 will be too rich for them, as may 

 happen when manure has been largely 

 used, it will be advisable to mix with 

 the soil a considerable proportion of 

 chalk or lime rubbish. The variety 

 catalogued as marginata argentea has 

 small three-lobed leaves, pretty uni- 

 formly dull green in the centre, with 

 whitish midrib and veins, with broad 

 margin of creamy-white, producing 

 a rich silvery variegation. This is 

 the variety frequently recommended 

 under the name of " silver-edged 

 ivy," for edging beds in geometric 

 and terrace gardens, as it is as bril- 

 liant in the depth of winter as in the 

 height of summer. 



45. Marginata canescens. — Similar 

 to the last, but the variegation more 

 dense, and of a grey hue. 



46. Marginata Cullisii. — The va- 

 riegation consists of a very deep 

 margin of creamy-sulphur, deepening 

 at the edge of the leaf into bright 

 crimson-red. The colouring of this 

 variety approximates very closely to 

 that of the tricolor geraniums. 



