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THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
the fhnibbery, and valuable for forming very neat and 
expeditious hedges; are of upright, full growth, branch 
ing thick and ereftly from the very bottom ; clofely 
garnifhed with fmallifh, ovate-oblong leaves, oppofite; 
and many erett, oval fpikes, of fmall, whitifh flowers 
in fummer; having one-leaved cups, four-parted above, 
a fmall, monopetalous, funnel-lbape corolla, quadi ifid 
or four-parted; two Ihort flamina and one piflillum, 
and the fpikes of flowers fucceeded by cluflers of round- 
ifh, black berries, containing four feeds, ripe in au¬ 
tumn and winter; proper for fowing to propagate the 
plants; which are all'o raifed plentifully by fuckers, 
layers, and cuttings. 
The Species and Varieties of LIGUSTRUM are, 
I. LrcusTavw vulgarg, Common, Deciduous Privet. 
A large, upright, bulliv, deciduous fhrub, growing 
eight or ten feet high—the leaves ( fmallijh , dark - 
green) ovate-oblong, and oppofite; and eredt, oval 
fpikes of whitiili flowers; June or July.—Native of 
England, and other parts of Europe. (Jny foil and 
fit nation.) 
Varieties. —Gold-Ariped-leaved Deciduous Privet. 
Siiver-ftriped-Ieaved Deciduous Privet. 
z. Ligustrum fesnper-virens, Ever-green Italian 
Privet. 
A large, ever-green fhrub, growing eight or ten 
feet high—the leaves ( fmallijh, dark-green) ovate- 
oblong, oppofite, and continue all the year; and eredt, 
oval fpikes, of whitifh flowers; July and Augult.— 
Native of Italy. foil and Jituation.) 
5. Ligustrum latifolium. Broad-leaved Carolina 
Privet. 
A large, ever-green fhrub, eight or ten feet high— 
leaves ( larger, dark-green ) ovate-oblong, oppo¬ 
fite; and erett fpikes of whitifh flowers; July.—Na¬ 
tive of Carolina, (^ny common foil.) 
Thefe fhru’os, being of large, eredl, bufhy growth, 
are adapted for fhrubberies, and other plantation dif- 
tridls in pleafure-grounds, in aflemblage with other 
hardy fhrubs and trees; and are remarkably well 
adapted for forming neat, clofe garden hedges, proper 
both for internal divifions and occaflonally for outward 
fences, as they grow very clofe and expeditioufly; and 
are likewife proper to plant in a fpreading growth againfl 
naked or unfightly walls, or palings, &c. where re¬ 
quired to have them covered, and for which the ever¬ 
green forts are molt eligible, on account of their con¬ 
tinuing leaves in conftrmt verdure at all feaibnB; 1 toe 
that occailon, and hedges, any of the forts are eligible. 
They are propagated by feeds, layers, fuckers, and 
cuttings. 
Sow the feed in autumn or fpring, in a bed of com¬ 
mon earth, in drills an inch or two deep, or broad-cafl, 
on the furface, and earthed over that depth; they will 
come up freely in fpring, or beginning of fummer; 
and when the plants are cf one fummer’s growth, tranf- 
plant them into nurfery-rov/s; and in which they may 
either be permitted to grow up rough or bufhy from the 
bottom, both for hedges and flandard fhrubs; or, for 
the latter, fome trained with a Angle flem, pruning up 
the lateral fhcots and branches below, and encouraged 
to branch out full above in bufhy heads; and when two 
or three, to four or five feet high, are proper for final 
tranfplanting in fhrubberies, or where they may be re¬ 
quired; or for hedges, they being trained in a bufhy, 
fpreading growth, feathered quite to the bottom ; and 
of one, two, to three or four feet, are of eligible fizes 
to plant for that purpofe. 
Or to propagate them by layers, cuttings and fuckers, 
it may be performed in the autumn or fpring: layers 
of the pliant young branches and fhoots will be abun* 
tiantly well rooted in one fummer, for planting off in 
autumn or fpring following; likewife cuttings of the 
year-old fhoots planted, will emit roots, and grow 
freely; and fuckers arifing from the bottom of old 
plants, may be taken off with roots, and planted, form¬ 
ing at once proper rooted plants. 
All the Privets, being mod hardy fhrubs, admit of 
planting any where in open or clofe fituations, or to 
plant in clofe places in towns and cities, where many 
other fhrubs would not grow; and admit of removal 
for planting any time in open weather, from September 
or October, till March or April; or, on particular oc- 
cafions, might be tranfplanted fuccefsfully in May or 
June, as they have abundant roots, very fibrous, fo as 
they may readily be tranfplanted with balls, which, par¬ 
ticularly in late planting as above, in the latter part of 
fpring, or in fummer, would be of greater advantage, 
by having them continued in growth, without flint, 
or much check by removed. 
They are proper to plant in flandard, bufhy fhrubs, 
for variety in fhrubberies, or any general plantations of 
fhrubs and trees; and in which, as they often run into 
long, rambling fhoots, they fhould be pruned to fome 
regular order, in fummer or winter, as may be re¬ 
quired. 
For Privet hedges, they may be formed, both by 
planting young plants of one, two, or three feet, 
planted a foot aionder in the row; or to form at once a 
full 
