STYRAX OFFICINAL? 



This is the plant 



which 



i produces the 



Gum Storax, an ai 



•tide formerly much 



wed in medicine. It 



; is a 1 



wtive of Syria 



and the Levant, als< 



, of G 



reece, and has 



been long naturalized 



[ in the 



iu'iu'lilioarii' ml 



nt' Tivoli; it is supposed 



to have been 



cultivated by Adrian, 



at his 



villa there, and 



lini- became establis 



hod, a> 



, he was known 



to have introduced many n 



ire plants into 



hi* garden. 









r tender, needing pro- 



tcction in hard frost : 



: itflm 



Irishes against a 



wall, in which situati 





e is yet remain- 



ing a tine specimen i 



n the 1 



Chelsea garden, 



planted seventy or 



eighty 



years ago, by 



Miller. 



it flower* in August, and is increas 

 with difficulty by layers, which require t\ 

 or three years to strike; they may 

 potted in loam and peat. 



