OLIVE FAMILY 



Since the discovery of the affinity that exists be- 

 tween the plants of northeastern Asia and northeastern 

 America a number of north China, Japanese and Man- 

 churian lilacs have been brought into this country. 

 From these has been evolved an astonishing number 

 of varieties, double-flowered and single-flowered, in 

 color melting from deep rose to blush and white, or 

 running through all the changes of a lilac which, los- 

 ing its pink by successive stages, attains at last a cool 

 pure blue. But after all is told, notwithstanding the 

 doubles and the singles, " my heart is in the high- 

 lands," and there is no Lilac like the old Lilac which 

 gave its name to the color. 



The French gardeners took up the Lilac upon its 

 first appearance in Europe, and in Paris it has been for 

 a hundred years a favorite forcing plant. 



PRIVET. PRIM 



Ligi'i strum vulgar e. 



The Privet of old English gardens, a native of both 

 Europe and Asia, has been very generally introduced 

 into this country as a hedge plant. The plant, how- 

 ever, is so well adapted for city life that gardeners are 

 beginning to use it not for a hedge merely, but as an 

 ornamental shrub. Its virtues are many, it bears a 

 smoky atmosphere with composure and increases in 

 stature ; is remarkably free from insect pests and from 

 disease ; the foliage, a dark handsome green, remains 

 until destroyed by the storms of winter. On the 

 southern shore of Lake Erie it is fresh and bright and 



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