XII* 

 I. AQUIFOLIUM VARIETIES Continued 



Silver Variegated Varieties with the 

 Marking in the Centres of the Leaves 



1A. argentea medio - picta = medio 

 picta, albo- picta, " Milkmaid" and 

 " Silver Milkmaid." A well-known 

 and handsomely variegated Holly, the 

 fault of which is that the variegation is rather 

 apt to run out, unless the tendency thereto is 

 timely checked. It has green bark and ovate 

 or cuneately-ovate leaves ij to 2 inches long, 

 and about an inch broad, with very strong and 

 much divaricated spines. The colour is dark 

 green at the edge, with a large central blotch 

 of creamy white which is irregular in shape, 

 size and position, but is frequently confined to 

 the basal half of the leaf. 



I. A. Ingramii. A very distinct, small-leaved 

 Holly, with purple bark. The leaves are elliptic 

 ovate, ij inches long, about \ an inch wide, 

 evenly bordered with spines ; the disk is of a dark 

 olive-green, somewhat mottled and rugose, the 

 teeth and margins greyish white, the markings 

 being freckly with no distinct outline. 



* Many of the descriptions contained in this chapter are based 

 on those of Thomas Moore's, which appeared in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle^ 1875. 



