

A true climbing ivy, though the nursery label declares it to be arborescent and 

 fruit-bearing. It is extremely beautiful and quite distinct. The stems are of a 

 deep purple colour, the leaf- 

 stalks bright reddish purple, 

 the leaves triangular, with ob- 

 scure, blunt, rhomboid, basal 

 lobes, or with occasional ear- 

 like lobes, projecting singly 

 and unsymmetrically. The 

 ground colour is dark green, 

 with a few faint blotches of 

 grey, overlaid with thead-like 

 whitish veins, the margin bright 

 cream colour, delicately lined 

 on the extreme edge with bright 

 pink in winter. This variety 

 grows slowly, but makes a 

 pretty pot-plant. 



DEALBATA, The blanched 

 ivy. A very distinct and pecu- 

 liar plant occurring frequently 



in a wild state in the woods on the eastern slopes of Snowdonia, where it fre- 

 quently carpets the ground with a profuse growth of dark-green leafage, dotted 

 with leaves of a pure white. The leaves are usually equally three-lobed, small, 

 and varying but little in size or form ; many of them dark green, with a faint 

 powdering of white; others wholly blanched and semi-transparent; when grown 

 in a good soil, the growth becomes wholly green, but when grown in a soil con- 

 sisting chiefly of potsherds, broken stone, and coarse grit, it continues faithful to its 

 sylvan character. Figured in title page, top, right hand. 



NEBULOSA, The clouded ivy. This pretty ivy was found growing on the 

 parapet of the bridge which spans the little waterfall in the village of Dwygyffylchi, 

 North Wales. The stems are dark green when mature, purplish when young. 

 The leaves are smallish, in form usually sagittate, reticulated with whitish veins 

 on a green ground, or mottled and clouded with grey and yellowish white. It is 

 distinct enough to have a name and place. Figured in title'-page, top, left hand. 



PELLUCIDA, The translucent ivy. This is a remarkably beautiful variety, 

 obtained from one of the buttresses of the old stone wall of Conway. In habit the 



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