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trees, &c 



it forms beautiful hedges to cottage gardens, where there is abun 

 (lance of room. 



^ 2. S. JosiK^E^^ Jacq. Josika's Lilac. 



Iitcntification. Jacq. in Bot. Zeit 

 Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 3278. : 



Spec. Char., 6)-c. Leaves el 



1831, t. 67. ; Don's Mil!., 4. p. 51. 



Bot. Reg., t. 1733. ; Botanist, t. 24. ; and omfigs. 1230. and 1210. 



^1239. S. JosiksB'a. 



liptic-lanceolate, acute, 

 ciliated, wrinkled, gla- 

 brous, on short petioles, 

 white beneath. Flowers 

 purple. (Don's Mill.) 

 An upright deciduous 

 shrub. Transylvania, 

 in shady places near 

 water. Height 6 ft. to 

 12- ft. Introd. in 1835. 

 Flowers purple ; May. 

 Naked young wood 

 purplish green. 



1240. S. JoukseNi. 



^ 3. S. pe'rsica L. The Persian Lilac. 



Mcntificution. Lin. Sp., 11. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. 51. 

 ^.ijnonymcs. Lilac minor Mcench ; Lilac p^rsica Lam 

 fngravings. Bot. Mag., t. 486. ; and our^g-. 1242. 



!S/)ec. Char., Sfc. Leaves small, lanceolate, 

 ; entire. Flowers purple. {Do7i's Mill.) A 

 [ deciduous shrub. Persia. Height 4 ft. to 

 ; 6ft. Introduced in 1640. Flowers purple; 

 \ May and June. 



Lilas de Perse, Fr. ; Lilac di Persia, Ital. 



# 



'ariettas. 



^ S. p. 2 alba Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836. 

 Leaves lanceolate, entire. Flowers 

 white, 

 a S. p. 3 lacinihia Lodd, Cat. ed. 1836, 

 Bot. Cab. 1107., and out fig. 1241. 

 S. capitata Gmel. Itin. iii. p. 304. ''*' sp-iacimua. 



t.32. f. 1., Schmidt. Baum. ii. p. 79. ; Lilas 

 a Feuiiles de Persil, Fr. This variet)' 

 has some of its leaves pinnatifidly cut, 

 and nearly all of them cut in some 

 manner. 

 S. p. 4 mlmjulia Lodd. Cat. ed. 1836 has 

 the leaves somewhat hoary, like those of 

 the common sage. 



One of the most common, and, at the same time, 

 one of the most ornamental, of our low deciduous 

 shrubs. It is frequently planted in pots, and forced 

 so as to come into flower at Christmas. Tn Paris, 

 it is said, they retard the Persian lilacs, by placing 

 them in an icehouse in December, and keeping them 

 there till the September or October following, when 

 they will come into bloom without the aid of artificial 

 heat about Christmas. ( See Gard. Mag., vii. p. 247.) 

 Layers and suckers, which are produced in great 

 ibundance in any common garden soil. 



* 4. S. rothomage'nsis. The Rouen Lilac. 



S. dabia Peys. Erich. \. p. 9. ; Lildceum rothomag^nse Renault Fl. de I'Orne p. 100. 



S. pd-sica. 



