THE IVY. 



LATIFOLIA, The broad-leaved Hack-fruited ivy (syn. Baccifera latifolia). 

 A fine tree ivy, with broad ovate leaves of a deep green colour. If judged by 

 its most obvious aspects it might be pronounced an intermediate form between 

 H. helix and H. canariensis (grandifolia), and a careful diagnosis might not make 

 anything else of it. It is the handsomest of the fruiting forms of H. helix. 



CHRYSOCARPA, Yellow-berried ivy (syn. 

 Baccifera luted]. The most beautiful 

 plant in this section, and one of the most 

 valuable hardy evergreen shrubs to grow 

 in pots for plunging in the outdoor win- 

 ter garden. The growth is dwarf and 

 compact, forming a dense, close, round 

 bush ; the leaves are ovate and entire, the 

 colour a fine, rich, full green ; the berries, 

 which are produced in great abundance, 

 are a dull deep orange colour, affording a 

 quite unique and novel feature when the 

 plant is used (as it is at Stoke Newing- 

 ton) with Skimmia japonica, Cratsegus 

 pyracantha, Pernettya mucronata, Coto- 

 neaster microphylla, the female form of 

 Aucuba Japonica viridis, and the small-leaved Hollies, in the plunging system. 

 The plant figured at page 44 represents one of our best specimens, when covered 

 with berries. It measures two feet across, and is only twenty inches high from 

 the rim of the pot. The clusters of berries on the plant selected numbered forty" 

 two. This is probably the true " poets' ivy," if the poets lay claim to any one in 

 particular, because it occurs frequently in Italy and Greece. 



LEUCOCARPA, White-berried ivy (syn. Baccifera alba). This variety is in the 

 Stoke Newington collection, if labels may be trusted ; but as it has not yet fruited, 

 the mention of its name must suffice. 



Chrysophilla. 



