May 13, 1891.] 



Garden and Forest. 



221 



Ilex Icevigata is a graceful shrub, eight or ten feet 

 high, with pale branchlets covered with minute lenticular 

 dots and smooth, brownish green stems. It flourishes 

 when transferred to the garden, and grows apparently as 

 vigorously and rapidly in garden soil as in the deep, 



Crinum giganteum. 



THIS appears to be as common in the moist tropics 

 of Africa as C. Asiaticum is in Asia. It occurs in the 

 collections of almost all African travelers, and, although an 



Fig. 39. — Ilex Isevigala.— See page 220. 



undrained swamps which it has selected as its home. In 

 the autumn it is one of the most brilliantly fruited plants 

 in the Arboretum ; and it is one of the best of our native 

 shrubs to cultivate when effects of autumn colors of fruit 



and foliage are desired. 



c. s. s. 



old garden plant in England, it has been introduced sev- 

 eral times recently as a new species of exceptional beauty. 

 It is gigantic only in the size of its flowers, the stature of 

 the plant being considerably less than many of the ever- 

 green Crinums. It has a short-necked bulb, thin gray-green 



