month of May, are so powerfully fragrant as to perfume 
all the air around them: it is for this valuable property 
that the tree is chiefly cultivated. Its reddish brown 
fruit, which is something like a small date, is only eaten 
by birds. 
_ There are in the Gardens of a few individuals near 
London some plants, said to produce an excellent fruit, 
which have been raised from seed sent from Persia, under 
the name of Zinzeyd. These are the Hleagnus orientalis, 
which Bieberstein considers a mere garden variety of the 
species now figured. Its fruit is doubtless very good ; and 
the flowers are reported to be even more odoriferous than. 
those of E. angustifolia. 
This is a native of Egypt and the eastern parts of 
‘Europe, commencing with Bohemia, — whence the French, 
who esteem it much, call it the Olivier de Bohéme, — and 
extending far into Persia and Siberia. It is very common 
in the Caucasus, and in Circassia, especially about Kisljar 
and the banks of the Terek: it is generally used for 
hedges, for which it is said to be well adapted. Ac- 
cording to Pallas, it is most abundant in wet places, 
among sand hills, in the vicinity of the Caspian and 
the Volga, especially in the neighbourhood of the wells 
of the nomadic inhabitants: it is not seen further north 
than 49°. By the Kirgise Tartars it is called Dshigde; 
by the Calmucs, Segdé; by the Russians of the Terek, 
Léch: it is also sometimes named the Jerusalem Willow. 
Our drawing was made in the Garden of the Horticul- 
tural Society at Chiswick, in May 1827. 
J. L. 
