6o Ornamental Shrubs. 



L. ibota is another species from Japan, and is in all 

 respects one of the best. It proves a somewhat smaller 

 form with even more slender twigs and branches. The 

 flowers are in drooping racemes in midsummer, and so 

 fragrant that they perfume the air for a considerable 

 distance. It is able to endure a greater degree of cold 

 than the last mentioned, and so is to be preferred in 

 northern latitudes where the ordinary privet hedge is 

 considered precarious. It is believed to be as hardy as the 

 old English privet which Mr. W. C. Egan of Highland 

 Park, Chicago, puts down as the only ligustrum which 

 thrives in that locality. 



L. litcidum. — This also belongs to the evergreen branch 

 of the group and is not freely planted in this country. 

 The leaves are much larger than in either of the others 

 described and are more oval. Its flowers appear in wide- 

 spreading panicles in early autumn, and are quite showy as 

 well as fragrant. It is a native of China, though found 

 growing freely in Japan also, rising to a height of ten to 

 twelve feet. 



HYPERICUM— St. John's-wort. 



THE hypericums constitute a large genus of tender 

 and hardy herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees. 

 The Greek name appears to have been originally 

 applied to a species growing freely in Egypt and southern 

 Europe, which was but twelve to eighteen inches high. 

 The best of the hardy sorts growing as shrubs or small 

 trees are natives of North America, though Europe 

 furnishes several that are valuable. They can be easily 



