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month of May, are so powerfully fragrant as to perfume 

 all the air around them : it is for this valuable property 

 that the tree is chiefly cultivated. Its reddish brown 

 fruit, which is something like a small date, is only eaten 

 by birds. 



There are in the Gardens of a few individuals near 

 London some plants, said to produce an excellent fruit, 

 which have been raised from seed sent from Persia, under 

 the name of Zinzeyd. These are the Elceagnus orientalis, 

 which Bieberstein considers a mere garden variety of the 

 species now figured. Its fruit is doubtless very good ; and 

 the flowers are reported to be even more odoriferous than 

 those of E. angustifolia. 



This is a native of Egypt and the eastern parts of 

 Europe, commencing with Bohemia, — whence the French, 

 who esteem it much, call it the Olivier de Boheme, 



and 



extending far into Persia and Siberia. It is very common 

 in the Caucasus, and in Circassia, especially about Kisljar 

 and the banks of the Terek : it is generally used for 

 hedges, for which it is said to be well adapted. Ac- 

 cording to Pallas, it is most abundant in wet places, 

 among sand hills, in the vicinity of the Caspian and 

 the Volga, especially in the neighbourhood of the wells 

 of the nomadic inhabitants : it is hot seen further north 



than 49". 



By the Kirgise Tartars it is called Dshigde; 



by the^ Calmucs, Segde ; by the Russians of the Terek, 

 Ldch : it is also sometimes named the Jerusalem Willow. 



Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 

 tural Society at Chiswick, in May 1827. 



J. L. 



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