XIII * 

 I. AQUIFOLIUM VARIETIES Continued 



Golden Variegated Varieties with Green 

 Margins 



I A. aurea medio - picta = aurea picta, 

 aurea picta spinosa and " Gold Milk- 

 maid."- -This is a distinct and beautiful 

 variety which exhibits some diversity 

 in size and colouring of foliage. It frequently 

 occurs as a sport on I. Aquifolium, and this, 

 with a slight variation in the size of the leaves 

 and spines, has occasioned the adoption of several 

 different names. It is recognised by means of 

 the disk being irregularly marked by a large, 

 deep golden blotch which frequently occupies 

 more than half the surface whilst the irregular 

 margin is of a dark glossy green. There are 

 both male and female forms. 



I. A. aurea medio-picta latifolia. This is 

 the best form of " Gold Milkmaid" and is 

 distinguished from other forms by means of its 

 large, flattened leaves. The spines are variable 

 in number and position, but they are stout, well 

 developed and divaricate, generally wanting at 

 the rounded base of the leaf, and sometimes 

 confined to a few near the apex. The broad 



* Many of the descriptions contained in this chapter are based 

 on those of Thomas Moore, which appeared in the Gardener? 

 Chronicle, 1876. 



