I. Aquifolium Varieties 



longing to the large-leaved set of I. Aquifolium. 

 The leaves are oblong, 4 inches long, ij inches 

 wide, bright green, regularly armed with 

 moderately strong divaricate spines. The chief 

 peculiarities of the variety are the relative 

 narrowness of the leaves compared with their 

 length, the distinct pale colour of the principal 

 vein, spines, margins and under surface, and the 

 formation of two tiny spines, one on each side 

 near the base of the leaf. 



I. A. pendula = " Common Weeping Holly." 

 The peculiarity of this form is that its branches 

 are pendent ; its leaves are deep green, divari- 

 cately spiny, and ordinarily from 2 inches to 3 

 inches long. The bark is deep purple in some 

 cases, purplish in others, and green in others ; 

 while the spines are somewhat broader, and in 

 some cases fewer in number than in the type, 

 though sufficiently numerous to bring it among 

 the many-spined varieties. When well grown 

 it forms a handsome specimen many yards in 

 circumference with an evenly balanced head. As 

 no leading shoot is formed it is necessary to keep a 

 shoot tied up to get height into the plant. In 

 the Gardener's Chronicle for March 6, 1847, p. 

 158, a record is given by Mr John Booker, 

 gardener to Charles Clarke, Esq., Matlock Bath, 

 of a weeping Holly being found wild in a wood 

 on that estate growing in such a position that it 

 must have grown from a self-sown seed. This 



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