Holly, Yew and Box 



times few, sometimes wanting on one side, 

 generally few and distant, rarely evenly dis- 

 tributed throughout, all directed forward ; the 

 colour is dark green on the central part, with 

 grey blotches, and the margin is creamy white, 

 irregularly laid on, frequently most thoroughly 

 developed towards the tip, but more or less 

 regular throughout. 



I. A. " Handsworth New Silver." This remark- 

 ably handsome "Silver Holly" was intro- 

 duced by the Handsworth firm of nurserymen 

 many years ago. It has been confused with the 

 green leaved variety, I. A. handsworthensis, and 

 called I. A. handsworthensis argentea variegata. 

 In Moore's Monograph it is figured as hands- 

 worthensis but it is a totally different plant from 

 that variety. It is a purple-barked variety and 

 a free and vigorous grower. The leaves are 

 elliptic-oblong, 2| to 3^ inches long, margined 

 with very prominent spines, which lie in the 

 plane of the leaf with scarcely any tendency to 

 divarication ; the disk is mottled with green and 

 greyish-green, and there is a distinct and tolerably 

 even margin of creamy white, the strong con- 

 spicuous marginal spines being also white. 



I. A. laurifolia sulphurea = laurifolia argentea. 

 A variety which has the young bark purple. 

 The leaves are oblong, almost acuminate, some- 

 times slightly obovate, or ovate, occasionally 

 oblique, entire or with a spine set here and 



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