|those above named. It needs
| | |the protection of a wall in
| | |many districts.
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[Illustration: _GROUPING OF LILACS (several varieties). THE BUSH IN THE
CENTRE IS THE PERSIAN LILAC, SYRINGA PERSICA._]

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| COUNTRY OR | COLOUR |
NAME | ORIGIN AND | AND | GENERAL REMARKS.
| NATURAL ORDER. | SEASON. |
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| | |
Syringa (lilac) |Eastern Europe |Various |A lovely family. Mr. Bean
|and Northern | |in _The Garden_, April 2,
|Asia; | |1898, writes: "As now
|Oleaceae | |constituted, the genus
| | |consists of two groups:
| | |First, the true Lilacs,
| | |represented by S. vulgaris;
| | |and second, the Privet-like
| | |Lilacs, of which some
| | |authorities have made a
| | |separate genus under the
| | |name Ligustrina. The
| | |species in this latter
| | |group are distinguished
| | |from the true Lilacs by
| | |flowering later in the
| | |summer, and by having large
| | |panicles of smaller
| | |Privet-like flowers, the
| | |corolla of which is white
| | |and much shorter than in
| | |the other group. There are
| | |three of them in
| | |cultivati