I. Aquifolium Varieties 



2 1 to 3 inches long, of a dark green colour with 

 broad streaks of grey running parallel to the veins, 

 and with a definite and tolerably regular edge 

 of pale straw-yellow. The spines are bold but 

 irregular, and lie in the plane of the leaf, and 

 they appear always to stop more or less short of 

 the base. 



I. A. aurea regina= " Golden Queen." This 

 is a beautiful Holly and certainly the best 

 of the golden variegated series. The bark of 

 the young wood is green, and the leaves are 

 broadly ovate, 2j inches to 3^ inches long, and 

 i J to 2 inches broad, with very strong, spreading 

 and variously directed spines. The disk is 

 usually much mottled with dark green, pale green 

 and grey, often in nearly equal proportions, and 

 there is a broad, well defined, continuous margin 

 of deep golden yellow. It is a free growing but 

 sterile variety. The tendency to variegation is so 

 strongly marked on this beautiful plant that it is 

 not uncommon notwithstanding its robust habit 

 of growth to find leaves which, either on one 

 side of the mid-rib, or both, are entirely gold 

 coloured. On different plants a difference of 

 shade in the golden colouring can sometimes be 

 detected. It forms a very useful plant for a lawn 

 specimen and no collection should be without it. 



I. A. aurea regina nigra. A variety bearing 

 a strong resemblance to the true "Golden 

 Queen " on one hand and I. A. aurea marginata 



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