Please Identify Plants For me
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote
The use of Syringa as the generic name for lilacs goes back to Species
Plantarum (1753). Before Linnaeus's time Syringa was applied to both
lilacs and mock-oranges, sometimes by the same author.
1753 is even a bit before my time. :-)
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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
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