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LILACS AND PRIVETS 



Syringa and Ligustrum 



TRUE LILACS 



Syringa vulgar is . . 

 persica . . .. 

 chinensis vulgaris x persica 

 emodi 



Common Lilac 

 Persian Lilac 

 Rouen Lilac 

 Himalayan Lilac 



PRIVET LILACS 

 Ligustrma (or Syringa) japonica . 

 pekinensis 



amurensis 



PRIVETS 



Ligustrum vulgare 

 ovalifolium 



sinense . 



Japanese Lilac 

 Pekin Lilac 



Common Privet 

 Oval-leaved Privet 

 Chinese Privet 



"Lilacs glow and jasmines climb, 



Larks are singing the livelong day. 

 O the golden summer prime, 



June takes up the sceptre of May." 



(Arthur o Shaugnessy.} 



"^HESE trees grow not wild in England, but I 

 have them growing in my garden in very 

 great plenty," reported Gerard in 1597 of 

 the " Blew Pipe tree/' which " the later Physitions do 

 name Lillach or Lilach, and of the 'White Pipe Tree' 



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