Other Evergreen Hollies 



being the first to introduce living plants of this 

 species into Europe. In 1864 he is stated to 

 have sent live plants of this and I. integra to the 

 St Petersburg Botanic Garden. 



Professor Sargent in his Forest Flora of Japan 

 describes it as being the most widely distributed 

 and most common of Japanese Hollies, being met 

 with in all parts of the Empire, either wild or 

 cultivated, sometimes as small shrubs 3 to 4 feet 

 high, and again, under cultivation, as small trees 

 20 feet in height. At the foot of Mount Hakkodo, 

 an extinct volcano, it is said to be abundant, 

 growing in company with I. Sugeroki and I. 

 integra var. leucoclada. It is cultivated largely 

 throughout Japan, and is used for dwarfing and 

 cutting into fantastic shapes. 



Under cultivation in Britain it is found to be 

 of slow growth, but forms a very neat, compact, 

 evergreen bush, usually 2 to 4 feet high, but 

 sometimes upwards of 10 feet, and the same 

 through. The leaves are Box-like, very small, 

 ovate, with margins crenate and slightly revolute, 

 in colour dark green. The stipules are larger 

 than in most Hollies. The flowers are whitish 

 and the fruits black. From herbarium specimens 

 some difference is found to exist in the size of 

 the leaves on different plants, those of some 

 being almost an inch long, and wide in com- 

 parison, while those of others are scarcely half 

 that size. A variety known as I. c. major is in 



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