CHAP. LXXV. 



6>LEA CEJE. ZIGU'STRUM. 



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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 seri- 

 ously injure the plants. 



Accidents, Diseases, $c. The pri- 

 vet is not subject to be injured by 

 the weather, nor is it liable to the 

 canker, mildew, or other diseases; 

 but the *S"pMnx ligustri, or privet 

 hawk moth (fig. 1021.), and the Pha- 

 lae^na syringaria, feed on it in their 

 caterpillar state ; as does the Cantharis 

 vesicatoria (see p. 1224.), the well- 

 known blister-beetle, commonly 

 called the Spanish fly. The larva of 

 the privet hawk-moth is grass green, 

 with stripes of white, purple, or flesh 

 colour, on the sides ; the chrysalis 

 (a, in Jig. 1021.) is brown ; and the 

 eggs (of which b. represents one of the natural size, and the section of another 

 magnified showing the embryo insect,) are oval. The perfect insect measures 

 44 in. when its wings are expanded ; and the larva feeds principally on the 

 privet, though it is found occasionally on the lilac, laurustinus, &c. 



Commercial Statistics. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 16s. per hundred ; 

 at Bollwyller, plants of the species are 20 francs per 100, and the variety with 

 white fruit 50 cents, and that with green fruit 1 franc per plant ; and at New 

 York, the species is 37^ cents, and the varieties 50 cents per plant. 



afe * 1 2. L. SPICA N 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. nepal^nse Wall, in Rox. Fl. Ind., 1. p. 151., PI. Rar. Asiat., 3. p. 17. t. 231.; L. Ian- 



ceolatum Herb. Lamb. ; L. nepal< 5 nse var. glabrum Hook, in Bot. Mag t. 2921 

 Engravings. PL Asiat. Rar., 3. p. 17. t.231. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2921. ; and our fig. 1022. 



Spec. Char., ftc. Leaves elliptic, acute, 

 hairy beneath, as well as the branchlets. 

 Flowers crowded, almost sessile, spi- 

 cate, disposed in a thyrse, having the 

 axis very hairy. Bracteas minute. 

 Flowers white. ( Don's M ill., iv. p. 45.) 

 A shrub, from 6 ft. to 8 ft. high ; a na- 

 tive of Nepal, on the mountains. It 

 was introduced in 1823, and flowers in 

 June and July. 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. 



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3. L. LU N CIDUM Ait. The shining-leaved Privet, or Wax Tree. 



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



Eiigravfngs. BoL Mag., t. 2565. ; and our figs. 1023. and 1024. The former, drawn to a scale of 1 in. 

 to 4 ft., is a portrait of a tree in the Fulham Nursery, as it appeared in October, 1835. 



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

 thyrsoid, spreading ranch. Leaves broad. Flowers white. This tree 



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