This section is from the book "The Gardener V3", by William Thomson. Also available from Amazon: The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.
We have seen two different types of variegation; the one being variegated with gold, the other with silver. The former was sent out by Mr R. Hartland of Cork, who has in his nursery a large plant, though somewhat cut to pieces by the propagator's knife. The other has a silvery or creamy variegation, and, to the best of our knowledge, was obtained in Somersetshire. We have seen it, and it has the appearance of being a capital companion to the golden variety, apparently quite as robust in growth, and if anything of a livelier appearance. The silvery variegated variety is to be distributed in the autumn by Mr Thomas Sampson, Preston Road Nurseries, Yeovil.
 
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