XXXVI 

 LAURUSTINUS AND THE VIBURNUMS 



Viburnum Tinus . , ( . , . . Laurustinus 



opulus . . ' . . Guelder Rose 



lantana . . . . Wayfaring Tree, or Cotton Tree 



lantanoides '. . > . . Hobble Bush 



plicatum . . . Japanese Snowball 



macrocephalum 



tomentosum mariesi 



rhytidophyllum 



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" This flower that smells of honey and the sea, 

 White Laurestine, seems in my hand to be 

 A white star made of memory long ago 



Lit in the heaven of dear times dead to me." 



(Swinburne.) 



THE first record of the Laurustinus growing in 

 England is in an old Herball published in 1596, 

 and in the following year John Gerard, in his 

 "Crete Herball," refers to it thus: "The wilde Baie 

 groweth plentifully in every fielde of Italy, Spaine and 

 other regions which differ according to the nature 

 and situation of those countries : they growe in my 

 garden and prosper very well." So ap x irently the shrub, 

 a native of the Mediterranean region, was then quite 

 established in England. He further says it was " called, 



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