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Culture. — These plants maybe increased by 

 suckers, layers, and cuttings. 



The suckers are seni from the roots in great 

 plenty; these should be taken t'ron» the old 

 plants in autumn, and be planted in a nursery, 

 to srow one or two years till they have obtained 

 sufficient strength, when they may be removed 

 to the places where they are to remain. 



The layers may be laid down in the autunm, 

 being made from the young twigs. These may 

 be taken ofl" in the foljowing autumn, when well 

 rooted, being planted out where they are to remain. 



The cuttings of the young shoots may be 

 planted in the autumn, in a shady situation, 

 where they soon form plants. 



The plants are extremely hardy, and thrive 

 in almost any soil or situation, but grow taller 

 in light good ground than in that which is 

 stiff'. 



They are commonly disposed in plantations 

 of flowering shrubs, among others of the same 

 growth ; nnxing very well with lilacs, gelder 

 roses, and laburnums; and particularly valuable 

 from their thriving under the shade of trees, 

 and forming a blockade against low buildings, 

 where persons have no objection to their strong 

 smell. 



PHILLYREA, a genus containing plants of 

 the hardy evergreen shrubby kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Diandria 

 Monogynia, and ranks in the natural order of 

 Sepiarke. 



The characters are : that the calyx is a one- 

 leafed perianthium, tubular, four-toothed, very 

 small, permanent: the corolla one-pctalled, 

 funnel-form : tube scarcely any : border four- 

 parted, revolute, acute ; segments ovate : the 

 stamina have two filaments, opposite, short: 

 anthers simple, erect : the pistillum is a supe- 

 rior roundish germ : style simple, the length of 

 the stamens : "stigma thickish : the pericarpium 

 is an ovate-globular, two-celled berry : the seeds 

 solitary, flattish on one side, convex on the 

 other, one of them frequently abortive. 



The species are : 1 . P. media, Lance-leaved 

 Phillyrea ; 2. P. avgustlfolia, Narrow-leaved 

 Phillyrea ; 3. P. latifoUa, Broad-leaved Phil- 

 lyrea. 



The first rises to an equal height with the 

 third or true sort, but the branches are more 

 diftuscd, and have a darker bark : the leaves are 

 of a darker green, are more than two inches 

 long, and ahiiost an inch and half broad, a little 

 serrate on their edges, opposite on short fool- 

 stalks : the flowers axillary, in long bunches, of 

 an herbaceous white colour. 



There are several varieties : namely, the privet- 

 leaved and oJive-leaved; which are of humbler 



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growth, seldom more than eight or ten feet high : 

 the branches of the first are weaker, and spread 

 wider, and are covered with a light brown 

 bark: the leaves are stiff", almost two inches long, 

 and half an inch broad in the middle, drawing to a 

 point at both ends, and sit close to the branches; 

 the flowers are in little axillary clusters, small 

 and whiter. In the latter the branches are 

 stronger, and spread out wider; the bark is of 

 a lighter colour : the leaves are stiff", sn)ooth,- 

 and entire, on very short footstalks, of a lucid 

 green, and terminating in a point : the flowers 

 in clusters, on pretty long peduncles, from the 

 axils of the young branches, imall and white. 

 And in the Kew catalogue there are three other 

 varieties mentioned : namely, the long-branched, 

 which has long upright branehes ; the drooping, 

 which has the branches hanging down and 

 straddling ; and the box-leaved. 



The second species has the stalk ten or twelve 

 feet high, sending out opposite branches, covered 

 with a brown bark spotted with white: the leaves 

 are smooth, stiff", narrow, entire, sessile, about 

 an inch and half long, and half an inch broad 

 in the middle, drawing to a point at both ends, 

 of a light green, and pointing upwards : the 

 flowers come out in large clusters at each joint 

 of the branches, sitting close like whorled 

 flowers, and almost surrounding thein ; they 

 are small aiul white. 



There is a variety termed rosemary-leaved, 

 which is of humbler growth, seldom rising 

 more than four or five feet high, sending out 

 slender, opposite, straight branehes, sparsedly 

 disposed : the leaves dark green, stiff, and en- 

 tire ; about an inch long, and not more than an 

 eighth of an inch broad, sessile: the flowers are 

 small, white, m clusters from the side of the 

 branehes: the berries very small, rarely ripening 

 in this climate. And in the Kew catalogue 

 another variety is mentioned, under the name of 

 Dwarf Phillyrea. 



The third, True or Smooth Broad-leaved, rises 

 with a strong upright stem to the height of 

 eighteen or twenty feet, dividing into several 

 branches, covered with a smooth grayish bark : 

 the leaves are entire (or obscurely serrate), firm, 

 of a light green, an inch and half long, and an 

 inch broad, on short footstalks: the flowers are 

 axillary, on each side, of an herbaceous white 

 colour, in small clusters; they come out in 

 March, but being small make no great aj)pear- 

 ance. 



There is a variety, the prickly broad-leaved, 

 which is as high as the smooth one, and sends 

 out several strong branches, which grow erect, 

 and are covered with a gray bark : the leaves are 

 an inch and half long, and an inch broad, firm, 

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