I. Aquifolium Varieties 



I A. Wiseana = " Wise's Holly." A fine 

 ornamental variety distinguished by its green 

 bark, and by the outline of its leaves, which are 

 not narrowed to the base. The leaves are ovate, 

 of a dark green colour, with a large creamy white 

 centre, 2f inches long ; the margins spiny and 

 wavy, but the spines are less divaricate than on 

 most of the other varieties, and occasionally, but 

 not frequently, the leaves are few-spined. It is a 

 handsome Holly, of tall pyramidal habit. 



Silver Variegated Varieties with the 

 Principal Variegation on the Margins 

 of the Leaves 



I. A. albo-lineata. A variety of the silver- 

 edged race, with green bark to the young shoots, 

 ovate leaves, which are slightly wavy, with narrow 

 slender spines, about 2 inches long, ij inches 

 wide, the disk greyish mottled green, with a 

 rather indistinct margin of creamy white. 



I. A. angustifolia albo marginata = serratifolia 

 albo marginata. A pretty little shrub with purple 

 bark, the twigs of which are erect. The leaves 

 are similar in size and shape to those of angusti- 

 folia but the disk is mottley green, and the margin 

 creamy white, most strongly developed at the apex. 



I. A. argent ea longifolia = longifolia argentea. 

 A striking looking variety of vigorous habit, 

 having the young bark purple or purplish. The 

 leaves are elliptic or elliptic-ovate, fully 3 inches 



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