Quercus 
ilex 
110 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CUPULIPEREZ: 
planted by my father since 1825; which have 
thriven very well. Their growth however is 
always very slow. Most of them lost their leaves 
in the winter of 1860-61, but appear to have 
quite recovered. Iwo or three however were 
killed down to the stump, and these, as usual in 
such cases seem likely to remain in the form of 
bushes. I have observed both here and on the 
hills about Genoa, that when the Jl/ex grows in 
this scrubby bushy form, its leaves are apt to have 
less of the usual grey down on the back, and 
sometimes are quite green on both sides, so that 
in herbarium specimens, they might be thought to 
belong to a different species. 
One tree in the arboretum, raised from an acorn 
brought by my father from Nice is now flourishing. 
There was an old Ilex in the paddock, jag 
Mildenhall, of considerable size which was 
believed to have been planted there by Sir 
Thomas Hanmer, in the first half of the eighteenth 
century; yet it was killed to the very ground 
by the frost of January, 1861. 
The finest Ilexes, by far, that I remember to 
have seen in England, are in Mr. Mill’s beautiful 
erounds at Stutton on the Stour. There are five 
of them of a size and beauty that would be striking 
even in Italy. They grow in a group so as to 
intermix their branches, forming a complete and 
continuous dome of foliage, the circumference 
