should be treated like haws, and kept a year in the rot-heap, or sown immediately
after being gathered, as, if otherwise treated, they will not come up for
18 months. As shrubs, privet plants require very little pruning; but, as low
trees, they must have the side shoots from the stem carefully rubbed off whenever
they appear. Treated as hedges, or as verdant sculptures, they may be
clipped twice a year, in June and March ; and, every five or six years, the sides
of the hedges ought to be severely cut in, one side at a time, so as to remove
the network of shoots, which, in consequence of continual clipping, forms on
the exterior surface, and which, by preventing the air from getting to the main
stems, would in time seriously injure the plants.
^ t t ¥ $ 2 . Z/. s p i c a ' t u m Hamilt, Tiie s\)\k.cá-Jiowered Privet.
Identification. Hamilt. MSS. ex D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 107. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 45.
Synonymes. L . nepalénse Wall, in Ilox. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 151. ; L. lanceolàtum Herb. Lamb.
Engravings. PI. Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 17. t. 231. ; and ourfig. 1220 .
Sj)cc. Char., Leaves elliptic, acute, hairy
1220. ft. spicktuin.
beneath, as well
as the brancldets.
Flowers crowded,
almost sessile,
spicate, disposed
in a thyrse, having
the axis very
hairy. Bracteas
minute. (Doris
Mill.) A subevergreen
shrub.
Nepal, on mountains.
Height
6 ft. to 8 ft. Introduced
in 1823.
Flowers whitc ;
June and July.
Variety.
âfe « L. i. 2 flàbrum Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 2921., and our fig. 1221.—A
native of Nepal, where it is called Goom gacha. The trunk and limbs
are covered with warts, but the young branches are glabrous.
Though commonly treated as a green-house plant, there can be little doubt
of its being as hardy as L. liicidum, the species to be next described. It
should be grafted on the common privet ; and, if planted in a dry soil and
rather sheltered situation open to tJie sun, it will be the more likely to make
no more wood than what it can ripen before winter.
âfe Ä Î Î 3. L. Lu'ciDUM Ait. The shining-Ze-awiZ Privet, or JVax 'Tree.
Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 1. p. 19. ; Don’s Mill., 4. p. 45.
Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2565. ; and om fig . 1222.
Spec. Char., Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, shining above. Panicles
thyrsoid, spreading much.. Leaves broad. Flowers white. This tree affords
a kind of waxy matter. (Doris Mill.) A low sub-evergreen tree. China.
Height 10 ft. to 20 ft. Introduced in 1794. Flowers white ; September and
October : and, as in the preceding species, not followed by fruit in England.
« 5 L. I. 2 floribundum Donald’s Cat., and our flg. 1223., has larger
bunches of flowers than the species.
A very handsome low sub-evergreen tree; or, when it is not trained to a
single stem, a large showy bush.
1222. ft. lùcidum. 1223. ft. 1. floïlliûnduui. 1224. ft. »alicifòliiini
L. naliäßlium. — A plant to which this name might be
suitable was in the arboretum at Kew from 1823 to the
winter of 1837-8, when it was killed; and there are also
young plants of it in the Horticultural Society’s Garden,
of one of which ßg. 1224. is a specimen.
afe L. japonicwn Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 17. t. 1 , and our
1225. ; L. latifòlium Vitm. ; is a native of Japan, with oblong-
ovaie grooved leaves, and wliite flowers, growing to the
height of 6 or 8 feet. — L. nepalcnse has oval-lanceolate serrated
leaves, and is a very distinct species. H. S.
G e n u s II.
1225. ft. japdnicum.
PHILLY'REA Tourn. T h e P h i l l v e e a , Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia.
Identification. To,ira. la s t., 3C7. ; Lin. Gea., No. 19. ; Doa’s Mill., 4. p. 45.
Si/nonymes. Filaria, Fr. ; Steinlinde, Ger. . . . . . .
Derivation. Fromphullon, a loaf ; or from Pkilyra, the mother of Chiron, who was changed into a tree.
Gen. Char., f r . Calyx small, tubular, d-toothed, permanent. Corolla short,
campanulate, rotate, 4-cleft, deciduous. Stamens a little exserted, with short
filaments. Style simple. Stigma thickish. Drupe globose, containing a 2-
celled nut ; one of the cells usually abortive. Seed solitary in each cell.
Albumen rather farinaceous or fleshy. {Doris Mill.)
Leaves simple, opposite, exstipulate, evergreen ; mostly entire. Flowers
in axillary racemes, greenish white. Drupes black, globose.
Shrubs or low trees, evergreen ; natives of the South of Europe, and_ of
some parts of Western Asia. In British gardens they have been in cultivation
for nearly three centuries, they are all most desirable evergreen shrubs, on account
of their shining dark green leaves, and the fragrance of their numerous
white flowers. They are propagated by cuttings or layers, and will grow in
any common garden soil. When raised from seeds, the berries should be prepared
in a rot-heap like haws. By general observers, the phillÿrea is frequently
confounded with the alaternus ; but the species of that genus have their leaves
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