

DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF GARDEN IVIES. 



but it is a question if it has any pecu- 

 liar claim to the designation. It is 

 at once the largest and handsomest 

 form of helix. In growth very free 

 and robust, quickly covering a large 

 space, and producing a perfect felt 

 of lateral shoots. The leaves are 

 large, in form mostly deltoid and 

 without lobes, but a few are obscurely 

 three- to five-lobed. A fine speci- 

 men pyramid, with the young shoots 

 of the season pendent about it, pre- 

 sents a beautiful appearance, the 

 young shoots being purplish, the 

 young leaves bright grass-green ; 

 the older leaves deep holly-green, 

 overspread in winter with fine 

 chocolate or purplish bronze. This 

 and Tortuosa are the most glossy 

 varieties in this section, and because 

 of its peculiar brightness, "lucida" 

 appears to be an appropriate name 

 for the so-called " Poet's "ivy. 



RUGOSA, The wrinkled-leaved ivy 

 (syn. Helix major, Jersey helix). A 

 distinct but scarcely beautiful variety. 

 It grows freely and produces large 

 leaves, which are various in form, the 

 majority being deltoid with a rounded 

 base. But scattered about the plant 

 will be found two kinds of leaves 

 peculiar to this variety and none 

 other. One of these has five rounded 

 lobes, the front lobe being shield- 

 shaped ; the other is three-lobed, 

 the lobes rounded in outline, and 

 the whole surface puckered and blis-* 



Sagittjefolia. 



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