L I G 



L I G 



smellinjr, Inr C e. all fertile. It is a native of rises with a stronger stem, the branches Jess 

 Austria &c. flowering from June to August. pliable, and grows more erect ; the bark is of a 

 Culture — These plants are increased by sow- lighter colour; the leaves much larger ending in 

 ine the seeds either in the places where they are acute points, of a brighter green, and continue 

 to remain, or in beds of light earth, in the au- till they are thrust oft by the young leaves m the 

 tumn or spring, but the former is the better spring: the flowers are rather larger, and are 

 method raking them lightly in. When the plants not often succeeded by berries in this climate, 

 have ttained afew inches growth, they should be The chief use of the common sort is to form 

 removed from the beds into other beds, where the such hedges as are required in dividing gardens 

 soil is moist, and set out two feet apart each way, for shelter or ornament ; and for this the Itali- 

 andin the autumn those for the border removed an or Evergreen kind is usually preferred: it 

 into them : but the above is the better practice, bears clipping well, is not liable to be disngu- 

 The plants sown where they are to grow, red by insects, and having only fibrous roots, it 

 should be thinned out in the spring, and be kept robs the ground less than almost any other 

 clean from weeds. shrub : ll 1S one oi the tew P lants that wlU 

 ' They may be admitted in large borders for thrive in the smoke of large towns, though it 

 the purpose of variety. The first is also used as seldom produces any flowers in the closer parts 

 a medicinal plant. after the first year : it also grows well under the 

 LIGUSTRUM, a genus containing a plant of drip of trees and m shade : the Sphinx lAgustri, 

 the hardy deciduous and evergreen shrubby or Privet Hawk Moth, and Pkaleena Syringana, 

 kj nc j pfivet. feed on it in the caterpillar state, and Meloe ve- 

 il belongs'to the class and order Diandria sicatorius, Cant.harid.es or Blister Beetle, is found 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of on it. From the pulp of the berries a rose-co- 



Sepiurice. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed, tubular perianthium, very small: mouth 

 four- toothed, erect, obtuse : the corolla one- 

 petalled, funnel -form: tube cylindric, longer 

 than the calyx: border four-parted, spreading: 

 divisions ovate : the stamina have two filaments, 



loured pigment may be prepared : with which, 

 by the addition of alum, they dye wool and silk 

 of a good durable green : for which purpose they 

 must be gathered as soon as they are ripe. 



Culture. — These plants are capable of being 

 increased by seed, layers, suckers, and cuttings ; 

 but the first method affords the best plants : 

 the seed should be sown in autumn, in a bed of 

 common earth an inch deep, or in drills the 



opposite, simple : anthers upright, almost the 

 lendh of the corolla : the pistil lum is a round- 

 ish o-erm : style very short : stigma two-cleft, same depth ; but as they do not always grow 

 obtuse, thickish : the pericarpium is a globose freely the first year, they may be buried till 

 berrv, smooth, one-celled: the seeds four, con- next autumn, in pots of sandy earth, in the 



vex on one side, cornered on the other. 



The species cultivated is L. vulgare, Com- 

 mon Privet. 



It T? a shrub, usually about six feet in height, 

 branched, the bark of a greenish ash-colour, ir- 

 regularly sprinkled with numerous prominent 



ground, and then sown as above : when the 

 plants come up they should be kept well weed- 

 ed, and, when a year or two old, be planted out 

 in nursery-rows, to remain two or three years, 

 then removed where they are wanted to re- 

 main : the lavers should be laid down, from some 



points : branches opposite, the young ones flexi- of the pliable young branches, in the earth, in 

 ble and purplish: the leaves opposite, on very autumn or winter, when they will be well root-^ 

 short petioles, smooth on both sides, perfectly ed by the autumn following ; then take them oft 

 entire, the lower ones at the bottoms of the small from the stool, with their roots, and plant them 

 branches least : the panicle about two inches in in the nursery for a year or two, or till of pro- 

 length, close and somewhat pyramidal ; branch- per size for the purposes they are intended for: 

 is and pedicels appearing villose when magnifi- the suckers which rise annually from the roots 

 ed : the corolla white, b~ut soon changing" to a should be taken up in autumn, winter, or spring, 

 reddish-brown : the flowers are sweet-scented : with roots, and planted in the nursery as above: 

 berry superior, fleshy, subglobular, shining, of the cuttings of the young shoots, eight or ten 

 so dark a purple as to seem black : it is found inches long, should be planted in the autumn, 

 wild in most parts of Europe, &c. flowering in in a shady border, where they will be properly 

 July, and the berries ripening in autumn. * rooted by the following autumn, when they may 

 There are several varieties; as withtheleaves in be planted out in nursery rows, to acquire pro- 

 threes and enlarged atthe base, with silver-striped per growth, in the manner directed above. 

 leaves, with gold-striped leaves, with white ber- The varieties with striped leaves may be mcreas- 

 lies; and Evergreen or Italian Privet, which ed by budding, or inarching, upon the plain 



