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shade and some attention. This is usual¬ 
ly a small shrub only a few feet high, but 
Prof. C. S. Sargent saw a specimen in 
the woods surrounding a temple near Na- 
katsu fully 30 feet in height. The col?r 
of the leaves is yellowish green on the 
upper surface and decidedly yellow be¬ 
low. 
Ternstroemia Japonica —is another 
plant, like Cleyera Japonica, which is 
considered sacred by the votaries of the 
Shinto religion and therefore planted in 
the grounds of the Shinto temples and in 
most private gardens. Though the flow¬ 
ers cannot be considered showy the foli¬ 
age and the growth are very conspicuous. 
It thrives well in Florida and is always an 
object of great beauty. 
The finest and most beautiful of all the 
Hollies is the Japanese Ilex latifolia — 
perhaps the handsomest broad leaved ev¬ 
ergreen tree that grows in the forest of 
Japan. It is much cultivated in private 
and temple grounds. The leaves are 
about six inches long and four inches 
broad and very thick dark green and ex¬ 
ceeding lustrous. The large scarlet fruit 
of this tree, which does not ripen until 
the late autumn or early winter months, 
and which is produced in the greatest pro¬ 
fusion in axillary clusters, remains on the 
branches until the beginning of the fol¬ 
lowing summer. This holly forms beau¬ 
tiful specimens in our gardens and it 
should be largely planted not only on ac¬ 
count of its brilliant fruit but also on ac¬ 
count of the size and the character of its 
abundant foliage. It requires rich and 
rather moist soil, but succeeds well on 
high pine land. My largest specimens 
planted in 1897 are now about nine or 
ten feet high. 
Ilex Integra and I. rotunda —Both are 
doing well in good soil, but Ilex crenata 
does much better. It forms an exceeding¬ 
ly dense and beautiful shrub 3 to 4 feet 
high. The leaves are very glossy and 
not at all like those of our own hollies. 
The berries are black. It is much grown 
in Japan and is now common in this coun¬ 
try as far north as Philadelphia. Varie¬ 
ties with variegated foliage are common 
and apparently much esteemed. It is sur¬ 
prising that almost all the broad-leaved 
evergreens grown by the Japanese have 
produced in the course of time many sil¬ 
ver and golden variegated forms. They 
were carefully preserved and largely pro¬ 
pagated. Even among the bamboos and 
palms, the orchids and the herbaceous- 
perennials such variegated forms are nu¬ 
merous and highly prized by the Japan¬ 
ese.’ This fact shows plainly that these 
plants must have been grown in the Mi¬ 
kado’s empire since times immemorial. 
Other a laponica —Appears to be close¬ 
ly allied to the hollies. It is a dense ever¬ 
green shrub with glossy foliage and black 
berries. It grows well with me on high 
and low land. One of the founders of 
this society, the late Mr. E. H. Hart at 
Federal Point, informed me years ago 
that he had a specimen in his grounds 
fully 15 feet high and of a dense and 
compact habit. 
Euonymus laponicus —With green, sil¬ 
very and golden variegations in its abun¬ 
dant foliage is not as often seen in our 
gardens as its beauty justifies. The plain* 
green-leaved form is a very robust grow¬ 
er, but this is also' divided by the Japan- 
