CHAP. LXIir. 



CAPRIFOLIA CK^. 



riBU RNUM. 



1033 



never open unless they are sheltered. This is ([iiite a distinct variety, 

 with fewer and more spreading branches than the common kind, anil 

 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 Athis. A plant of this variety, at Bal- 

 ruddery, the seat of the Earl of Meath, near Bray, was, in 1825, 

 10 ft. high, and 12() ft. in circumference. {Dub. Phil. .Ioitrii.,\. p. 438.) 



• V. T. -t virgdfa Ait., 1. c, Clus. Flist., 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. T. 5 sfricta 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 1833, was 6 ft. high. There is also a va- 

 riegated subvariety. 

 Description, Sfc. 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 3 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 abuntlant 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 sul)urban 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 6rf. to l.v. each ; at BoUwyller, from 30 cents 

 to 2 francs. 

 A. Half-hardy Species of Yibkrnum belonging to 

 the Section Thins. 



V. rugdsum Pers., /'. Tlnus var. stricta Ait., V. strictum 

 Link, V. rfgidum Vent., (Hot. Reg., t. 376. ; Bot. Cab., 1.859. and 

 our Jig. 779.1 is a frame shrub very like V. Tlnus, but tiiffering in 

 the leaves, whicli are longer and hairy all over. It is a native of 

 the Canaries; and was introduced in 179.5; flowering from De- 

 cember to March. Trained against a wall, it grows to the height of 6 ft., and requires little or no 

 protection. 



§ ii. Yihurmnn Tourn, 



Synonymes. Lentigo Bee. Prod., 4. p. 424. ; riburnum Micnc/t Mcth., p. 505. 

 Sect. Char., Sfc. Leaves deciduous. All the flowers fertile, and equal in shape 

 and size, except in V. lantanoides. Corolla rotate. Fruit oval. 



ik 1 2. V. Lenta^go L. The Lentago, or pliant-branched. Viburnum. 



Identiftention. Lin. Sp., p. 38-1. ; Dec. Prod., 4. p. 325. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 440. ; Lodd. Cat.ed. 1836. 

 Synonymes. Tree Viburnum, Canada Viburnum ; Viorne h Rameaux pendans, Viorne luisante, Fr. ; 



Birn Blatteriger Schneeball, Ger. ; CanadischeSchwalkenbetr Strauch, Schwalkcn Strauch, Hayne 

 Engravings. Wats. Dend. Brit., t. 21. ; Schmidt Baum., 3. 1. 176., ex Rwm. et Schultes Syst., 6. 



p. 637. ; our Jig. 780. ; and the plate in Vol. II. 



