I. platyphylla 



with green bark. The leaves are stout in texture, 

 from 2 to 3 inches or more long, broadly ovate 

 with a short acumen, rarely quite spineless, 

 occasionally few spined, or more frequently spiny 

 throughout, with flat or plane, rather strongly 

 developed spines which in rare instances become 

 somewhat wavy or divaricate, indicating that it 

 may possibly be of hybrid origin. Like most 

 Hollies of this class the colour is rich ; in this 

 instance it is rather bright green, by which it is 

 distinguishable from Hodginsii, which is of a 

 much darker hue. 



I. Wilsoni. A vigorous growing, green- 

 barked Holly belonging to the large leaved 

 section. It is probably a natural hybrid and is 

 one of the most ornamental of all the green 

 leaved sorts. On healthy specimens the leaves 

 grow to a large size, sometimes being upwards of 

 5 inches long, and 2j inches wide. They are 

 oval in form and are armed with numerous 

 evenly developed spines a quarter of an inch or 

 so long, which usually lie in the same plane and 

 point in an upward direction. In shade they are 

 dark, and they are very distinct by reason of 

 the well-defined veins. It is a fruiting variety, 

 the fruits being intermediate in size and colour 

 between those of I. Aquifolium and I. platyphylla. 

 When exhibited by the Handsworth firm in 1899 

 at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society, 

 it was awarded a first class certificate. 



