

DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF GARDEN IVIES. 



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CHRYSOPHYLLA, The golden- 

 leaved ivy (syn. Aurea spectabilisi 

 Aurea densa minor, Digitata aurea, 

 Aurea or golden, Aurea maculata, 

 Canariensis aurea marmorata, Foliis 

 aureis). A distinct variety, which 

 has a different name in almost every 

 nursery where it is to be found. 

 There may be more than one variety, 

 ndeed, to justify the multiplicity of 

 names, but our plants, obtained from 

 various sources, and labelled as in the 

 foregoing list of synonyms, vary so 

 little that we have resolved to con- 

 sider them identical, and to make 

 the name Chrysophylla represent 

 them all. This is a free-growing 

 climbing plant in an in- 

 termediate condition, and 

 occasionally under pot 

 culture producing fruit- 

 ing shoots. The leaves are 

 broad, variously lobed, 

 but the lobes are always 

 obtuse and few in num- 

 ber, the greater part being 

 obscure. The variegation 

 appears in patches on the 

 young growth, many of 

 the leaves being wholly 

 of a deep yellow, others 

 mottled with paler yellow 

 on a green ground, a large proportion of the plant being of a dark green, with- 

 out any trace of variegation. A fine variety when planted out in a poor gravelly 

 or chalky soil, but under pot culture and in rich soil apt to "run out." The 

 golden spray in the centre of the frontispiece represents the young growth ; at the 

 foot, right hand, of the plate at page 62 is represented an old mottled leaf. 



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Marginata major. 





