Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, anb FRUITS. 
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Phillyrea— -(PHILLYREA) or Mock Privet. 
Clafs and Order. 
Diandria Monogynia, 
Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants with Hermaphrodite Flowers, having two 
Stamina, or Males, and one Fifiillum, or Female. 
THE Phillyreas are very noted, ornamental, 
evej-green fhrubs, for beautifying ibrubberies and 
other decorative plantations, and for variety, &c. 
confiding of three fpecies, and feveral curious varie¬ 
ties; all of largilli, upright, very branchy, bufhy 
growth; adorned with fmall, ovate-lanceolate, linear- 
narrow, and broad cordate-ovate leaves, moiily all in 
pairs oppofite; and fmall, greenifli flowers, of but 
little appearance, growing in clufiers ; each flower is 
formed of a funnel-fliaped petal, cut into five parts ; 
contains two ftamina, a roundilh germen, with one 
ftyle, and the germens grow a globular berry, having 
each one round feed, ripe in autumn, and by which, 
fowed in that feafon or fpring, the Ihrubs are propa¬ 
gated; likewife by layers of the young branches or 
fhoots. 
The Species and Varieties of PHILLYREA are, 
l. Phillyrea media , Middle, or Oval-leaved Phil- 
lyrea. 
A large, ever-green fhrub, of upright, bufhy 
growth, fix or eight, to ten or twelve feet high—the 
leaves ( fmallijh, dark-green, Jhining ) ovate-lance¬ 
olate, moftly intire, and oppofite, by pairs.—Native 
of the fouthem parts of Europe. (Any common foil 
and ft nation.) 
Varieties. —Common Oval-leaved Middle Phillyrea. 
Privet-leaved Phillyrea. 
Olive-leaved Phillyrea. 
a. Phillyrea latifolia , Broad-leaved Phillyrea. 
A large, ever-green Ihrub, of upright, bulhy 
f rowth, eight or ten feet high—the leaves ( larger, 
road, dark-green, Jhining) cordate, or hearted-ovate,, 
fawed, and in pairs, oppofite.—Native of the fouth- 
ern parts of Europe. {Any common foil and fituation.) 
Varieties. —Common Serrated, Broad-leaved Phil¬ 
lyrea. 
Unferrated, Broad-leaved Phillyrea. 
Prickly, Ilex-lcavcd Phillyrea. 
3. Phillyrea anguf folia, Narrow-leaved Phil¬ 
lyrea. 
A middling, ever-green fhrub, growing fix or eight 
feet high—leaves ( narrow , dark-green) linear, fpear- 
fhape, very intire, and by pairs, oppofite.—Native 
of Italy and Spain. {Any common foil and ft nation.) 
Varieties. —Rofemary-leaved Phillyrea. 
Lavender-leaved Phillyrea. 
Variegated, Narrow-leaved Phillyrea. 
All thefe fpecies and varieties of Phillyrea are very 
hardy, will grow in almofl any fituation and common 
foil; are fine, fhowy ever-greens, branching nume- 
roufly from the bottom upwards, in a bufhy growth, 
clofdy garniihed with leaves, continuing all the year 
in conftant verdure; and are defirable, principal, ever¬ 
green fhrubs, to plant in fhrubberies, and other com¬ 
partments of pleafure-grounds, for ornament and va¬ 
riety; trained generally in bufhy llandards, and in¬ 
troduced principally in affemblage with others of the 
ever-green tribe, and occafionally to diverfify decidu¬ 
ous clumps, or to dot fingiy in borders, plats, lawns, 
&c. they likewife admit of training for ornamental 
garden-hedges, and are particularly well adapted to train 
in a fanned, fpreading manner, again!! walls or palings, 
in fore-courts, or any place where required to have 
naked or unfightly walls. Sec. covered; as they branch 
out quite from the bottom, and admit of training to 
the wall in a. fpreading expanfion, to cover it cotai- ' 
pletely, and appear always green. 
The Phillyreas. and Alaternus, are very fimilar in 
their growth and leaves, only the former having the 
leaves placed oppofite, by pairs, and the latter are al¬ 
ternate, or one above another., fingiy. 
The different fpecies and varieties of Phillyrea are 
cultivated in all the general nurferies, where any forts 
required may be had, of proper growth for planting ; - 
and for which, all or any of the fpecies are eligible; 
but where room to admit the different fpecies and va^ 
ricties,, they will make a confpicuous diverfity. 
The general feafon for planting thefe ever-greens- 
is either in autumn, commencing towards the middle 
or latter end of September, or any time in Odtober 
or early part of November, or principall in the fpring 
months; or, in mild open feafons, might be per¬ 
formed occafionally any time in winter, cfpecially where 
the fhrubs can be removed with balls of earth to the 
roots; otherwife, autumn or fpring is moll advife- 
able for any general planting of thefe and other ever¬ 
greens. 
They are propagated by feeds and layers, in the 
autumn or fpring. 
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