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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



should be treated like haws, and kept a year in the rot-heap, or sown imme- 

 diately after being gathered, as, if otherwise treated, they will not come up for 

 18 months. As shrubs, privet plants require very little pruning ; but, as low 

 trees, they must have the side shoots from the stem carefully rubbed off when- 

 ever they appear. Treated as hedges, or as verdant sculptures, they may be 

 clipped twice a year, in June and March ; and, every five or six years, the sides 

 of the hedges ought to be 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 in time seriously injure the plants. 



34 * 4 2. L. SPICA'TUM Hamilt. The spiked-flowered Privet. 



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

 Synonymes. L. nepalcnse Wall, in Rox. Fl. Ind. 1. p. 151. ; L. lanceolatura Herb. Lamb. 

 Engravings. PL Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 17. t. 231. ; and OUT Jig. 1220 . 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves elliptic, acute, hairy 

 beneath, as well 

 as the branchlets. 

 Flowers crowd- 

 ed, almost sessile, 

 spicate, disposed 

 in a thyrse, hav- 



ing the axis very 

 u x> . 



hairy. Bracteas 



minute. (Don's 

 Mill.) A sub- 

 evergreen shrub. 

 Nepal, on moun- 

 tains. Height 

 6 ft. to 8 ft. In- 

 troduced in 1823. 

 Flowers white ; 



1S0. L. spicfrtum. June and July. 



Variety. 



g m L. s. 2 gldbrum Hook, in Bot. Mag. t. 2921., and our fig. 1221. A 

 native of Nepal, where it is called Goom gacha. The trunk and limbs 

 are covered with warts, but the young branches are glabrous. 

 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. 



& * 1 3. L. LuViDuai Ait. The sinning- leaved Privet, or Wax Tree. 



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

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 2565. ; and our fig. 1222. 



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

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

 a kind of waxy matter. (Don's Mill.') A low sub-evergreen tree. China. 

 Height 10ft. to 20ft. Introduced in 1794. Flowers white; September and 

 October : and, as in the preceding species, not followed by fruit in England. 



Variety. 



* 1 L. /. 2 floribundum Donald's Cat., and our Jig. 1223., has larger 

 bunches of flowers than the species. 



A very handsome low sub-evergreen tree ; or, when it is not trained to a 

 single stem, a large showy bush. 



