516 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ill. 
1Yex Aquifolium in the Environs of Dublin. _At Castle Town, 30 ft. high, the trunk 18 in., and 
the head 30 ft. in diameter; at Cypress Grove, 30 ft. high ; at Terenure, 40 years planted, and 30 ft. 
high, in dry soil, on a calcareous subsoil; in Cullenswood Nursery, J. A. crodceum, [?] 12 years 
planted, and 17 ft. high. 
IVex Aquifolium South of Dublin. In King’s County, at Charleville Forest, 40 years planted, and 
45 ft. high, diameter of the trunk 32 in., and of the head 28 ft., inbrown loam, on gravel. In Munster, 
at Castle Freke, 52 ft. high. 
Ilex Aquifilium North of Dublin. Im Louth, at Oriel Temple, the species and several varieties, 
from 20 tt. to 30 ft. high. In Down, at Ballyleady, 60 years planted, and 34 ft. high. In the Park, 
at Moira, 25 ft. high. In Antrim, at Belfast, in Mr. Templeton’s garden, 15 ft. high. 
Iver Aquifilium in Foreign Countries. In France, in the Jardin des Plantes, 50 years planted, 
and 30 ft. high ; in the Botanic Garden at Toulon, 48 years planted, and 18 ft. high; at Nantes, 
in the nursery of M. Nerrin, 60 years planted, and 30ft. high. In Saxony, at Worlitz, 35 
years planted, and 16 ft. high. In Austria, at Briick on the Leytha, 30 years planted, and 12 ft. 
high. In Prussia, the holly grows wild in a forest 20 miles from Berlin, nevertheless, in the 
Berlin Botanic Garden, it requires protection during winter ; at Sans Souci,9 years planted, it has 
attained the height of 8 ft. In Hanover, at Harbecke, 6 years planted,:it has attained the height 
of 3 ft. ; inthe Botanic Garden at Gottingen, it requires protection during winter. In Denmark, 
in the Royal Gardens at Copenhagen, it is 3 ft. or 4 ft. high, and requires protection. In Sweden, 
in the Botanic Garden at Lund, it is 23 ft. high, and requires protection. In Italy, at Monza, 30 
years planted, it is 20 ft. high 
Commercial Statistics. In the London nurseries, two years’ seedlings of the 
species are 7s. a thousand; transplanted plants of 3 and 4 years’ growth, 
from 8s. to 10s. a thousand ; variegated hollies, in sorts, one and two years 
planted, from 50s. to 75s. a hundred. At Bollwyller, the species, of 3 or 4 
years’ growth, is 1 franc a plant, and the different varieties 3 francs each. 
At New York, the species is 50 cents a plant, and the different varieties, 
which, in that part of America, require protection during winter, are 1 dollar 
each. ; 
22. I. (A.) Bavea’Rica Desf. The Minorca Holly. 
Identification. Desf. Arb., 2. p. 262.; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 17. : 
Synonymes. I. Aquifdlium var. 3 Lam. Dict., 3. p. 145, ; I. made- 
rénsis Willd. Enum. Suppl., 8. according to Link. 
Engraving. Our fig. 183. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, acute, flat, shining, 
entire, or spiny-toothed. Umbels axillary, few- 
flowered, short. (Don’s Mill., ii. p. 17.) A very 
distinct variety of the common holly, readily dis- 
tinguished at sight, by its yellowish green leaves, 
which are sharply acuminated, but very slightly 
waved at the edges, and with few prickles. As it 
is considered by some authors as a species, and 
has very much the appearance of one, we have 
thought it best to keep it apart. It is propagated 
by budding or grafting on the common holly. 
There were formerly large plants of this species 
in the Mile End Nursery. Plants, in the London 
nurseries, are 5s. each. At Bollwyller and New 
York it is a green-house plant. 
£ 3.1. opa‘ca Ait. The opaque-leaved, or American Holly. 
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew, 1. p. 177.; Dec. Prod.,2. p. 14. ; Don’s Mill., 2. p. 17. 
Synamamne. Agrifolium vulgare Clay¢. Flor. Virgin.; Ilex Aquifdlium Gronov. and Wait. Fi. 
Car. 241, 
Engravings. E., of Pl., No. 1824.; and the plate of the species in our Second Volume. 
Spec. Char. &c. Leaves ovate, flat, coriaceous, acute, toothed in a scalloped 
manner, spiny, and glabrous, but not glossy. Flowers scattered, at the 
base of only those branches that are a year old. Teeth of the calyx acute. 
Sexes dicecious. (Dec. Prod., ii. p. 14.) A beautiful evergreen tree, a na- 
tive of North America, from Canada to Carolina, sometimes, according to 
Pursh, growing to the height of 80 ft., with a trunk 4 ft. in diameter. 
Introduced in 1744. The flowers are white, and produced in May and 
June, and the berries are scarlet, round, and handsome, remaining on all the 
winter. According to Rafinesque, in the northern parts of North America 
this species forms a bush under 10 ft. in height; its medium height, in 
favourable situations, being about 40 ft. This species was formerly sup- 
posed to be only a variety of J. Aquifolium. In America, it is applied to 
all the uses which the common holly is in Europe. It forms hedges ; is an 
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