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permanency of its elegant foliage ; it retains its foliage 

 much longer than the American variety, and bears green 

 berries. In England it is an evergreen, and nearly so 

 here. The American variety is also very desirable. It 

 sheds its foliage much sooner, and has black berries. 

 There are a number of other varieties or species of Privet, 

 which are also desirable. 



The Golden-edged Privet is a very striking variety, 

 with variegated leaves. L. lucida has elegant, thick, 

 glossy, green foliage, and is a valuable acquisition. L. 

 Japonica has large, long, glossy leaves, of a bright green, 

 and where it is hardy, will be very desirable. 



LIPPIA. SWEET VERBENA. 



[In memory of A. Lippi, a French botanist, who was killed in Abyssinia.] 



Lippia Cltrioddra. Sweet Verbena, Lemon-scented 

 Verbena. Aloysia citriodora and Verbena triphylla, of 

 the older botanical authors. A desirable green-house 

 shrub, which also succeeds well when planted in the bor- 

 der in the summer, and, if in rich soil, will form a neat 

 little bush before hard frosts set in in autumn. Before 

 freezing weather, the plants should.be taken up, and 

 housed, either in the green-house or sitting-room. This 

 delightful little shrub is a native of South America ; it is 

 indispensable in the flower-garden, on account of its ex- 

 quisite fragrance, which partakes of the scent of the 

 lemon and almond. The leaves are elegant, linear-lance- 

 olate, rough, arranged in threes upon the stem. Flowers 

 minute, pale-purple, almost white; numerous, in dense 

 upright regular panicles. It may be increased by cut- 

 tings, and also from seeds, when they mature, which is not 

 often the case in common cultivation. 



