It feeds on privet and lilac, and is said to eat currant, broom, and jasmine: May to August.
The caterpillars hatched July 3 to 6, and were reared on a diet of privet leaves--a food that I have always found they preferred to any other that has been offered to them, and upon which I have found them in the open.
I have found it commonly on privet hedges in the Mill Hill district, Middlesex, but in woods, and especially in the New Forest, it is obtained from honeysuckle.
Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) is the usual food, but possibly privet might answer as a substitute.
Privet in bloom in the hedges, panicles of small white flowers faintly sweet-scented.
As clean and white asprivet when it flowers,' says Tennyson in 'Walking to the Mail.
Brilliant moonlight bathed the little lawn with its bordering of high privet hedges.
A slight breeze had arisen and it rustled in the feathery foliage of the acacias and made a whispering sound as it stirred the leaves of the privet hedge.
Stuart ran across the room, jerked open the curtains and stared out across the moon-bathed lawn, its prospect terminated by high privet hedges.
When the Inspector had taken his departure Stuart stood for a long time staring out of the study window at the little lawn with its bordering of high neatly-trimmed privet above which at intervals arose the mop crowns of dwarf acacias.
A small flower-bed intervened between the path and the high privet hedge.
As to her extraordinary activity and agility," Gatton continued, "we must remember that a privet hedge is not like a stone wall.
Yet somehow there had been a settled look about that figure that had passed the opening of the privet and been gone all in a moment.
From the window she could see over the privethedge and down the road, but there was no sign of Edgar yet.
At about the time when Lady Tasker left Dorothy with Stan, Mr. Wilkinson drove up in a cab to the green door in the privet hedge and asked for Amory.
V "HOUSE FULL" The gate in theprivet hedge of The Witan had had little rest all the afternoon.
Then she descended again, opened the front door, closed it softly behind her again, passed through the door in the privet hedge, and walked out on to the dark Heath.
She made a charming picture as she walked slowly the length of the privet hedge and then turned towards the copper beech again.
The cart drew on to the left; Lady Tasker trailed after it; and suddenly it stopped before a high privet hedge with a closed green door in the middle of it.
The copper beech, the high privet hedge and the willows beyond it, shut out both light and air.
By the time they had reached the privet hedge, I had gone through the house from the kitchen to the terrace again, where I sat for ten minutes entirely alone laughing and watching those geese chasing each other around in the moonlight.
Even in the centres of large towns we may see them resting on the topmost twigs of a privet hedge, their beautiful green tint closely resembling that of the surrounding leaves.
It feeds in June and July on privet (Ligustrum vulgare) and the cultivated rose trees of flower gardens, and probably also on the dog rose (Rosa canina).
The Privet Hawk (Sphinx Ligustri) This is another fine moth, measuring nearly four and a half inches from tip to tip.
The larvae, however, are to be met with in abundance in privet hedges.
They are fully grown in August, and from the end of this month till the following June the chrysalides may be dug out from under privet and lilac bushes, both of which are attacked by the larva.
I could catch them in a net, but these specimens were nearly all damaged from their energetic flight among the flowers, and perfect ones are easy to rear from the larvæ, feeding in autumn on privet in the hedges.
Then he comforted her; went to fetch water in her can to make rivers on the sand path, or broke off branches from the privet hedges to plant trees in the beds.
To get to the nurse's it was necessary to turn to the left on leaving the street, as if making for the cemetery, and to follow between little houses and yards a small path bordered with privet hedges.
Walter, however, did not wait to hear the virtues and vices of privet hedges discussed.
Even Jerry was nowhere about; and the gardeners were far down on the south slope where he could just detect the clip of their shears as they trimmed the privet hedge.
He further saith, That the oil that is made of the flowers of Privet infused therein, and set in the Sun, is singularly good for the inflammations of wounds, and for the headache, coming of a hot cause.
Our Privet flowers in June and July, the berries are ripe in August and September.
A Privet is not so easily forgotten, and you were an uncommonly pretty bud, Ruth.
It's a nice occupation for the daughter of Judge Privet to be nursing a disreputable thing like a Brownrig.
The pump is behind the privet hedge, and is provided with a sink and waste pipe which takes the overflow some twenty or thirty yards to a neighbouring stream.
The nearest point to the well upon which any manurial deposit of excreta is likely to be made is on the far side of the privet hedge, and the distance of this point from the bottom of the well is 7 ft.
Thus I have at present in the garden of my cottage in the Thames Valley a heap of privet leaves intermixed with a quantity of fine twigs which give it great porosity and serve to admit a large quantity of air.
The ordinary overcrowded laurel and privet shrubbery is hideous and depressing.
He soon had a good protective screen of pines, euonymus, privetand hazel, and only then did he seriously begin to plant his garden.
Captain von Kessel was standing in the garden clipping a privet hedge.
On the outskirts of Langaffer village, and not far from the great pine forest, stood the cottage of old Dame Dorothy, with its latticed windows and picturesque porch, and its pretty little garden, fenced in with green palings and privet hedge.
Many days Dame Dorothy searched for her black dog in every corner of the cottage, and under every bush in the garden, and all among her privet hedge, for she was sure he had lain down in some spot to die.
Little do people nowadays know about scents anyway, when their botanists and naturalists write that the Privet bloom is 'pleasingly fragrant,' and one dame set last summer a dish of Privet on her dining table before many guests.
The traveller Kalm found Privethedges in Pennsylvania in 1760.
Osage Orange, Barberry, and Privet were in nurserymen's lists, but it has not been till within twenty or thirty years that Privet has become so popular.
A pretty line in Walking to the Mail tells of a girl with "a skin as clean and white as Privet when it flowers"; and there were White Lilies and Roses and milk-white Acacias in Maud's garden.
Our Privet hedges, new as they are, are of great beauty and satisfaction, and soon will rival the English Yew hedges.
I don't know that it is strange to find a generation who loved civet and musk thinking Privet pleasant-scented.
Nearly all our modern botanists have copied the words of their predecessors; but I scarcely know what to say or to think when I find so exact an observer as John Burroughs calling Privet "faintly sweet-scented.
The cart drew off to the left; Lady Tasker trailed after it; and suddenly it stopped before a high privet hedge with a closed green door in the middle of it.
And so it is described by Gerard as the Privetor Prim Print (i.
A brick path, damp and faintly green with moss, ran down to a green gate set in a ragged privet hedge that was always dusty and choked with dead twigs.
Although one of our commonest shrubs, this Privet can hardly be passed unnoticed, for the spikes of creamy-white flowers, that are deliciously scented, are both handsome and effective.
Of the common Privet there are several distinct and highly ornamental forms, such as L.
Not to be outdone, the Civil Service Rifles planted their crest in privet hedging alongside the others.
Here were regimental badges of various Guards Regiments worked in box or privet hedging.
They stood together, perhaps a dozen seconds, watching the capricious scraps of colour rise, float over the privet hedge on balanced wings, dip abruptly down and vanish on the farther side below the cliff.
The August afternoon was very hot; no wind ruffled the quiet blue-green water; there were no waves; the leaves of the privet hedge upon the side of the cliffs were motionless.
There are other shrubs than Privet in this fair world of ours, and as for providing shelter, the wind whistles through its bare stems and creates a draught good for neither man, beast, nor plant.
There is no doubt whatever that for town gardens thePrivet is of the greatest service, enduring smoke and fog with impunity.
In this note the use of Privet is not wholly condemned, but it must be understood its use is not recommended.
The oval-leaved Privet (Ligustrum ovalifolium) is a native of Japan, and makes a fairly good hedge about 5 or 6 feet high.
The Gold-leaved Privet is a delightful thing in early winter, and though Wild Privet, untouched by the knife, is a deciduous shrub, the clipped Privets of our gardens usually hold their leaves throughout the winter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
