"Silver or gold trimmings may be inherent in the plant, or they may be caused by a virus. The virus does not add to their beauty. I have a camellia that is disfigured by a scattering of discolored leaves. Even the natural variegation, if you can call it natural, is sometimes very unattractive. "Perhaps more rubbish is foisted on purchasers of trees and shrubs in the shape of variegated sorts than of anything else," [William Jackson] Bean writes. "A variegated plant should have its leaf colouring bright, well-defined and abundant to be of value. Yet by some dealers every spotty or muddy coloured form is thought worthy of a name and flattering description." As thoroughly as I agree with Bean about the prevalence of spotty variegations, especially the that looks as if yellow paint had been splashed on it, I don't think nurserymen are to be blamed for providing what people want and a great many people want the hideous aucuba."
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William Jackson Bean
(26 May 1863 – 19 April 1947) was an English , , and curator of from 1922 to 1929.
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