NOTES ON TREES, SHRUBS & PLANTS 27 



Of the cherry, or common laurel, the most graceful is 

 Zabeliana, while the varieties Gloire de Bordeaux and 

 rotundifolia are fine large leaved forms. 



Variegated Leaved 



A list of shrubs, other than conifers, with variegated 

 leaves may prove useful. 



Hollies are the finest, as unlike the majority of coni- 

 fers, aucubas, etc., their colouring is more or just as 

 prominent in the autumn and winter as in summer. 



The best of such hollies may be classed in two groups, 

 those silvered and those gilded. Of these last. Golden 

 Queen and the more recent Golden King may be selected. 

 The value of the former is well known ; the leaves are 

 broadly margined with yellow, not a few being wholly 

 of that colour. 



Silver Queen is a good white-margined variety to the 

 former. Handworthiensisy more narrowly lined with 

 white, is also useful. Moonlight is a popular blotched 

 leaved holly, but this and others are not nearly so bright 

 as the above. 



The various varieties of box are well known. 



Among the best varieties of Elaegnus pimgens are 

 Simonii, aurea variegata, Frederici variegatay aurea marginata, 

 and tricolor. They are best on sandy soil, or in sheltered 

 positions, and are then very fine. Aucubas thrive any- 

 where, thus are useful. A, japonica sulphurea is very 

 yellow. 



Pieris japonica elegantissima is a slow-growing, dwarf, 

 peat-loving shrub. A bed filled with this many years 

 old grows at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden, and the 

 plants have only reached 3I feet in height. The leaves 

 are thinly margined with white. 



Rhododendron ponticum variegatum is seldom seen, but is 

 excellent when massed. 



