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-fiowered, 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 



Ligustru7n vulgare. 



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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