. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XLVIII. OLEA^CE^ : SrSl'NGJ. 635 It requires to be grown in moist soil, either sandy peat or tandy loam, and in a sheltered situation. It may be propagated by layers j but as seeds are easily imported from America, and as the plant does not root very readily, that mode is not often adopt
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XLVIII. OLEA^CE^ : SrSl'NGJ. 635 It requires to be grown in moist soil, either sandy peat or tandy loam, and in a sheltered situation. It may be propagated by layers j but as seeds are easily imported from America, and as the plant does not root very readily, that mode is not often adopted. It may also be propagated by grafting on the common ash. O^LEA.âThough most of the species of this genus are too tender to stand the open air in Britain, yet there is one variety of the common olive, obtained from Nikita in the Crimea, which has lived through the winter of 1837-8, as a standard, in the Horticultural Society's Garden, and O. americana L. (Jig. 1236.) has lived against a wall at Messrs. Loddiges. This tree is the devil-wood of the Americans, a native of the southern states, as far north as Norfolk in Virginia. It is sometimes found as high as 30 or 35 feet; but its ordinary height is 10 or 12 feet. The leaves are 4 or 5 inches long, of a shining light green ; and they remain on two or three years. The flowers are very small, of a pale yellow, and strongly scented; appear- ing about the end of April. The fruit is round, about twice the size of the common pea; and, when ripe, of a purple colour, approaching to blue. It ripens in America in October, and remains attached to the tree during a great part of the winter, forming a fine contrast to the 123G. OHea amerlc^a. Sect. II. SYRfNGEJE. Genus IV. SYRI'NGA L. The Lilac. Lin. Syst. Diandria Monogynia. Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 22. ; Don's Mill., 4. p. .51. Synonymes. IMac Tourn. Inst. t. 372., Juss. Gen. p. 106.; Lilas, Fr.; Flieder, Ger.; Lilaco, Itat. Derivation. From sirinx, tiie native name in
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