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NOVEMBER 28, 1874] THE GARDENERS 
CHRONICLE. 687 
of the peg Count KERCHOVE, and of M. D 
GHELLINCK E WALLE, are mentioned with sal 
appr 
THE Soo HOLLY AND 
S. VARIETIES, —IIl. 
F be Bp 
5 
A. LEAVES GREEN (continued). 
{ Spines marginal, num oe ae both age 
ž Spines divaricate, 2.845 usly dire 
++ Leaves edam ced. a to 2} ane ong. 
tf Leaves lance-shaped in outline, sok an inch 
or less in width (continued). 
| 22, I. A. WHITTINGTONENSIS, Fisher, a ae 
Paul (fig. 138, 1).—A small-leaved and very elegant 
. Holly, with purple bark, and lanceolate or ETA 
hinnis i 
hued ati 
23. I. A. DONINGTONENSIS, Fisher, Waterer, Smith, 
Lawson, W. Paul; whittingtonensis, Lawson (figs. 1 38 
an 
2, 3).—This 
having been sent out by ere: Fisher & Co. 
a. with the bright green varieties. The gen 
e leaves is sins but they are s 
t co 
and sometim 
nished throughout “with them, the ine es when present 
strong and mu ivaricate, as in fig. 135, 3- 
The spiny leaves bear much resemblance in form to 
those o gtonensis, but re ir thicker texture 
them, 
3 _— furnish wciditional ‘evidence as 
! In this variet y the _— shows a ee 
>; sama along the ack of the 
à e Lawson Company seat aie the name of 
f 
growth of the branches, but whether r not this is 
= Confined to ai leading shoots, or pone throughout 
e plant, we are not informed. 
Lawson mall- 
Reed. ie crowing 325 occurring both th; green 
lish he 1 
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ot being usually subdivar ae but pia 
nearly flat, especially in the alg —_ es 
They © of a ” bright pretii colour, This variety 
me nearest to serratifo Tia 
25. I SHEA tRILTie Waterer, Fisher, Lawson, 
W. Pail (Gg. 138, 5).—One of the smaller neat- 
leaved Hollies, a send a deal resembling myrtifolia 
No.2), b but differing i in its stiffer lea ore 
lini to -e 
This plant, like the former, is of pyramidal ha habit and 
Well adapted for training into formal spec 
is green or purplish. The leaves are renee eip 
> 
In outline, about, or rather less, than 1 in 3 
and about } inch broad, of a dark glossy green, stiff, 
; m ae curve: that the leaf-edges are 
brought up and form a sort of channel of the up 
Surface, with jumerous regular an hago patit 
fe Sne moderately divaricate ess 
—— 
anaa kpn div fences 3 r appear to to be more $o, 
of the leaf ; uc: curvature 
pith leaf in the direction of the midrib, combined 
which there is a kind of also 
l disposition of the a on the stalk. Eten d 
_ acuminate, green, 
MER and } iach irg site ongka r 
margin, the apex usually terminating in an elongated 
ap 
the edges. The plant has a tendency to to a dwarfish 
dense habit of growth, being less spiry in outline than 
the two preceding so 
ee eg Smith, Lane ; latispina minor, 
a 
Waterer, W. Smi latispi ygmæa, 
Lawson ; latispina nana, Fisher (fig. 138, 7) E 
distinct, small-lea Holly, sent out 
Fisher, Holmes O., an arkable for its purple 
bark, and the dark green tint of its small pecul 
shaped The leaves vary from 3 1 
e 
half of leaf forming a large, enti 
oblong, bluntish lobe, not unfrequently emarginate ; 
hence the whole ose which are few- 
ved va We 
received this variety from the collection prs Ochtertyre 
under name of he terophylla, w which is a very 
different thing. _ This variety is So pated unlike me 
b eave 
in 
that we ne to adopt the hig aaan sen ak 
hastata, which it bears in som re mgen 
28. I, A. SMKA Fisher. a small-leaved sort, 
with the bark dark purple ; the leaves shortly ovate, 
from a base, about aan inch ong by j inch 
rt spiny throughout, e spines compara- 
ively bo ‘bo ld, and with a ode diva undulation, 
Hi isa distinct sag form. 7. Moo 
Home Gartside, 
Earley’s November Plum, — I was used 
when I read the remarks having te © this 
ws how difficult it is, ahs a a Bron Be fruits for the 
the existen on E r place, L had 
esort to that invaluable authority—the* o nly one I 
acknowledge in these matte rs—Hogg’s Fruit Manual. 
however ; the long thin branches of the sai season's 
formed pendent ropes of fruit, having leaves 
green w 
erefrom, and it was 
in its sub-acid and ai rough” characteristics. 
n regard to its keeping ualities, I have sal fruit 
ample, in fact, for the supply of any es 
Thoug h I have Cited eighteen seedling Plums 
two seasons, un unfortunately none none were 
r Satie E m ens 
dering rusti able 
j . before Finally, 
rd a disappointment ter may 
en a ered in similar pursuits, I 
