CHAP. LXIII. CAPRIFOLIA‘CEX. VIBU’RNUM. 1033 
never open unless they are sheltered. This is quite a distinct variety, 
with fewer and more spreading branches than the common kind, and 
much larger leaves, which are shining. There is a subvariety of it 
with leaves more or less variegated with white. It is a native 
about Algiers, and on Mount Atlas. A plant of this variety, at Bal- 
ruddery, the seat of the Earl of Meath, near Bray, was, in 1825, 
10 ft. high, and 120 ft. in circumference. (Dub. Phil. Journ.,i. p. 438.) 
« V. T. 4 virgata Ait., |. c., Clus. Hist., No. iii., with a fig. — Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, pilose on the margins, as well as on the under 
surface. It is a native of Italy, about Rome and Tivoli, &c. 
# V. TT. 5 stricta Hort. has a somewhat erect and fastigiate habit. 
There is a handsome plant of this variety in the Horticultural So- 
ciety’s Garden, which, in 1835, was 6 ft. high. There is also a va- 
riegated subvariety. 
Description, §c. The laurustinus, in its different varieties, forms tufted 
truly evergreen shrubs, prolific in flowers; and in airy situations on dry soils, 
where they have room to attain a large size, they become the most con- 
spicuous ornaments of British gardens during winter and early spring. They 
do not thrive well in the smoke of cities ; nevertheless they are to be seen 
nowhere finer than in the front gardens of small villas, from 5 to 20 miles 
from the metropolis; where they are in flower from November till April, 
and sometimes also during April, May, and June. Its blossoms are white, 
and so abundant as to give a gay appearance to the plants even in midwinter, 
an effect which is greatly heightened by the lively shining green of the foliage, 
and by the varied and picturesque forms of the compact tufting of the branches. 
These plants are admirably adapted for forming flower-garden hedges, and for 
varying the low iron palisades, pales, or brick walls, which separate the front 
gardens of street and suburban houses. The leaves, however, in these cases, 
should be removed as soon as they fall ; as, when they dry, they have a remark- 
ably fetid odour. In its native country, the laurustinus is invariably found in 
dry soils of some depth and substance; and it does not appear that it 
delights in the shade of other trees, like the common laurel, the holly, and the 
box. In British nurseries, it is frequently, for ex- 
pedition’s sake, increased by layers; but all the va- 
rieties are readily propagated by cuttings, taken off 
in autumn, and planted in a sandy soil, on a north- 
ern border. In two years, these cuttings will form 
saleable plants of the smallest size. ‘The variety 
V. T. lucida, being somewhat more difficult to 
strike than the others, is generally increased by 
layers. Price of plants, in the London nurseries, 
from 6d.to 1s. each; at Bollwyller, from 50 cents 
to 2 francs. 
A. Half-hardy Species of Vibirnum belonging to 
the Section Tinus. 
V. rugdsum Pers., V. Tinus var. stricta  Azé., V. strictum 
Link, V. rigidum Vent., (Bot. Reg., t. 376. ; Bot. Cab., t. 859. and 
our jig. 779.) is a frame shrub very like V. Tinus, but differing in 
the leaves, which are longer and hairy all over. It is a native of 
the Canaries ; and was introduced in 1795; flowering from De- 
cember to March. Trained against a wall, it grows to the height of 6 ft., and requires little or no 
protection. 


§ ti. Vebeéirnum Tourn. 
Synonymes. Lentago Dec. Prod., 4. p.424.; VibGrnum Meench Meth., p. 505. 
Sect. Char., §c. Leaves deciduous. All the flowers fertile, and equal in shape 
and size, except in V. lantandides. Corolla rotate. Fruit oval. 
% ¥2.V.Lenra‘co LZ. The Lentago, or plant-branched, Viburnum. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., p. 384.; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 325.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 440.; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Synonymes. Tree Viburnum, Canada Viburnum; Viorne 4 Rameaux pendans, Viorne luisante, Fr. ; 
Birn Blitteriger Schneeball, Ger. ; Canadische Schwalkenbeer Strauch, Schwalken Strauch, Hayne 
Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t.21.; Schmidt Baum.,, 3. t.176., ex Rem.et Schultes Syst., 6. 
p. 637. ; our fig. 780. ; and the plate in Vol. II. 
