Holly, Yew and Box 



long, with few long, irregular and unequal, much 

 divaricated spines, the disk mottled and dashed 

 with greyish green and the margin narrowly belted 

 with creamy white which is irregular in width, 

 and sometimes breaks out into broader patches. 

 A well-marked and ornamental form. 



I. A. argentea marginata = argentea lato- 

 marginata, argentea, variegata argentea, and albo- 

 marginata. This is the commonest of the silver 

 variegated sorts and varies somewhat in appear- 

 ance. The bark of the young wood is green. 

 The leaves are broadly ovate, 2 to z\ inches long, 

 with usually somewhat numerous but irregular 

 divaricate spines, sometimes with the spines 

 fewer or almost wanting ; the colour dark green, 

 with the disk slightly mottled, and with an 

 irregular narrowish silvery margin. It is a 

 fruiting variety. 



I. A. argentea marginata elegantissima. A 

 very striking variety, in which the bark of 

 the young shoots is green. The leaves are 

 elliptic-oblong, 2 inches long and i inch broad, with 

 bold and regularly developed spines, which be- 

 come divaricate from the wavy surface of the 

 leaf; the disk is dark green, mottled with grey, 

 and with a broadish tolerably even edging of 

 creamy white. 



I. A argentea marginata erecta = " Up- 

 right Silver-striped." In this variety, which was 

 introduced to the Knap Hill Nursery by Mr R. 



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