ligustrum

Behind the hedges of hibiscus and ligustrum central air units whirred in the night, bluish flickers bounced around living room interiors, and the eastern seaboard of the U.S. of A. began easing its way into its nightly alpha-wave coma of detective shows and sitcoms.

Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

Herbs that specifically activate T cells are American ginseng, Chinese astragalus root, ganoderma or reishi mushroom, shitake mushroom, Chinese atractylodes alba, ligustrum lucidum, epimedium, and the American echinacea root.

THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE JOHN LUST 2003

Faintly, the musky scent of ligustrum drifted on the air, though where that hedge-climbing vine grew with its frothing flowers, he could not imagine.

Dalamar the Dark Berberick, Nancy Varian 2000

A small garden grew on each side of the gangway, hemmed in by low ligustrum hedges and consisting of miniature rock gardens, the dislodged cobblestones piled up and serving as rocks, overgrown with trailers paying homage to the delicate orange laburnum flowers which formed the centerpiece of the arrangement.

Death of a Hawker Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1977

Pliny identifies cyprus with the ligustrum of Italy, but the plant is no other than the henna tree (Lawsonia alba) the Orientals are so fond of.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Libocedrus decurrens ligustrum species lilac species liliums lily-of-the-valley lima beans lime and sulfur wash

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

Thus in a Nominale of the fifteenth century we have "hoc ligustrum, a Primerose;" and in a Pictorial Vocabulary of the same date we have "hoc ligustrum, A {ce} a Prymrose;" and in the

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

"Promptorium Parvulorum," "Prymerose, primula, calendula, ligustrum" -- and this name for the Privet lasted with a slight alteration into Shakespeare's time.

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

The _celastrus_ (of the same class) _ligustrum_ and privits, so flexible and accommodate for topiary-works, and so well known, I shall need say no more of.

Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

Privet or ligustrum has been used as a hedging plant for hundreds of years for a couple of reasons.

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