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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



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at S.p. 4? Kctlvifolia Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, has the leaves somewhat hoary, 

 like those of the common sage. 



a 4. S. ROTHOMAGE'NSIS Renault. The Rouen Lilac. 



Synonymes. S. dubia Pers. Ench., I. p. 9. ; Lilaceum rothomagense Renault Fl. de VOrne p 100 

 S. mSdia Dum. Cours., 1. p. 709., Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836; Lilas Varin, N. Du Ham S chWnsis 

 IVUM. Sp., 1. p. 48., Berol. Saumz., p. 498., Don's Mill., 4. p. 51. ; S. sibirica Hort. : the Siberian 

 Lilac, Hort . 



Engravings. N. Du Ham., 2. t. 63. ; and OUT fig. 1041. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate-lanceolate. Flowers purple. (Don's Mill., iv. 

 p. 51.) An intermediate plant between S. vulgaris and S. persica. In 

 Belgium, there is a hybrid between this and S. 

 vulgaris, called S. media, or the Belgic Lilas de 

 Marly; which is probably the S. rothomagensis 

 of Turp. et Poit. Fl. de Par. A shrub, from 6 ft. 

 to 8 ft. high ; a hybrid between S. vulgaris 

 and S. persica ; raised at Rouen by M. Varin, 

 the director of the Botanic Garden there, 

 and introduced into British gardens in 1795; 

 flowering in May and June. It is of very 

 vigorous growth, and a most abundant flow- 

 erer ; and, in favourable soils and situations, 

 it will attain the height of 10 ft. or 12 ft. 

 This sort, and the preceding one, grafted 

 standard high on the ash, or the common 

 privet, would form very ornamental trees. 



Varieties. The following are mentioned in the 



Bon Jardinier for 1836 : 



fife S. r. 2 Lilas Royal Bon Jard. has the flowers more compact than the 

 Belgic Lilas de Marly. 



& S. r. 3 saugeana Hort. ; Lilas sauge, Fr. ; differs from the Lilas Varin 

 in having the flowers more red and more beautiful. There are 

 plants in the arboretum of Messrs. Loddiges. It is probably identical 

 with the variety mentioned in Gard. Mag.,\n. p. 379., of which there 

 are plants in the Grosvenor Nursery, King's Road, cultivated by 

 Mr. Dennis. S. coccinea and S. chinensis rubra Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836, 

 appear to be identical with this variety, or very slightly different ; but 

 the plants are too small to have yet produced flowers. 



App. i. Species ofSynngsi not yet introduced. 



S. Emodi Wall. Cat., No. 2831., Don's Mill, 4. p 51., 

 Royle lllust, p. 267. t. 65.. f. 2. ; and our fig. 1041.; has the 

 leaves elliptic-oblong, glaucous beneath, attenuated at the 

 base, and acuminated at theapex. Branches warted. Thyrse 

 terminal and panicled. Capsules almost cylindrical. The 

 bud-scales permanent at the base of the year's shoots. A 

 shrub, from 8ft. to 10 ft high, a native of Kamaon, towards 

 the Himalayas, with purple flowers, which appears to be a 

 very desirable plant. All the lilacs are so beautiful, both in 

 foliage and flowers, and of such easy culture in any common 

 garden soil, and even in climates of considerable severity, 

 that the number of sorts, provided they are truly distinct, 

 can hardly be too much increased. The objection which we 

 have to this genus of shrubs is, their liability to throw up 

 suckers, which, as we have more than once before observed, 

 have a disorderly and ungardenesque appearance, and are 

 only suitable for scenery in which the object is to imitate wild 

 and neglected nature. For this reason, we have often wished 

 that all the sorts of lilac cultivated in British gardens were 

 worked on stocks of the common privet, on which, it is 

 said, they will succeed perfectly. As the privet is quite 

 hardy, and does not throw up suckers, this, we think, would 

 be a real improvement, at least with reference to gardenesque 

 beauty. 



S. villdsa Vahl Enum., 1. p. 38., Don's Mill., 4. p. 51., is 

 a native of China, on mountains about Pekin ; and, according 

 to G. Don, it is, perhaps, the same as Z/igustrum sinense 

 Lour. 



