CHAP. LXXV. 



OLEA ce;e. iiGU 'strum. 



1201 



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 seri- 

 ously injure the plants. 



Accidents, Diseases, Sfc. The pri- jjfl^^i^ b 

 vet is not subject to be injured by 

 the weather, nor is it liable to the 

 canker, mildew, or other diseases ; 

 but the iSphinx ligustri, or privet 

 hawk moth {fig. 1021.), and the Pha- 

 lae^na syringiiria, feed on it in their 

 caterpillar state ; as does the Cantharis 

 vesicatoria (seep. 1224.), the well- 

 known blister-beetle, commonly 

 called the Spanish fly. The larva of 

 the privet hawk-moth is grass green, 

 with stripes of white, purple, or flesh 

 colour, on the sides ; the chrysalis 

 {a,'mjig. 1021.) is brown ; and the 



eggs (of which 5 represents one of the natural size, and the section of another 

 magn^ied showing the embryo insect,) are oval. The perfect insect measures 

 4^ in. when its wings are expanded ; and the larva feeds principally on the 

 privet, though it is found occasionally on the lilac, laurustinus, &c. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 16s. per hundred; 

 at BoUwyller, plants of the species are 20 francs per 100, and the variety with 

 white fruit 50 cents, and that with green fruit 1 franc per plant ; and at New 

 York, the species is 37^ cents, and the varieties 50 cents per plant. 



^ m. t i- 2. L. spiCA^TUM Hamilt. The s\)\keA-Jloivered Privet. 



Identification. Hamilt. MSS. ex D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p. 107. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 45. 



Synonymes. L. nepalense iVall. in Rox. Fl. Ind., 1. p. 151., PL Rar. Asiat.,o. p. 17. t. 231. ; L. lan- 



ceol'atum Herb. Lamb. ; L. nepalense var. gl^brura Hook, in Bot. Mag., t. 2921. 

 Engravings. PI. Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 17. t.231. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2921. ; and our^^. 1022. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves elliptic, acute, 

 hairy beneath, as well as the branchlets. 

 Flowers crowded, almost sessile, spi- 

 cate, disposed in a thyrse, having the 

 axis very hairy. Bracteas minute. 

 Flowers white. {Don's Mill., iv. p. 45.) 

 A shrub, from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high ; a na- 

 tive of Nepal, on the mountains. It 

 was introduced in 182.3, and flowers in 

 June and July. Though commonly 

 treated as a green-house plant, there 

 can be little doubt of its being as hardy 

 as L. lucidum, 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 the sun, it will be the more 

 likely to make no more wood than what it can ripen before winter. 



^ m tl ^. L. Lu'ciDUM Ait. The sKmmg-leaved Privet, or Wax Tree. 



Identification. Ait. Hort. Kew., 1. p. 19. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 45. , r i • 



£™/«L. Bot. Mag., t. 2565. ; and our figs. 1023. and 1024. The former, ^irawn to a scale of 1 in. 

 to 4 ft., is a portrait of a tree in the Fulham Nursery, as it appeared m October, m^b. 



Spec. Char., ^c. Leaves ovate-oblong, acuminated, shining above. Panicles 

 thyrsoid, spreading much. Leaves broad. Flowers white. This tree 



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