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Updated: May 24, 2025
This is a rare and beautiful species, of recent introduction, with large lilac-tinted, sweetly-scently flowers. D. LAUREOLA. Spurge Laurel. This is not, in so far at least as flowers are concerned, a showy species, but the ample foliage and sturdy habit of the plant will always render this native species of value for the shrubbery. It is of value, too, as growing and flowering freely in the shade.
It is readily propagated by sowing the hips, or fruit, which does not readily grow the first season; it is therefore usual to bury them mixed with saw-dust, or sand, one year, and then to sow them in beds. DAPHNE Laureola. SPURGE- or WOOD-LAUREL. Is used in medicine; which see.
NIPPLE-WORT. This plant is considered by the country people as a sovereign remedy for the piles. The plant is immersed in boiling water, and the cure is effected by applying the steam arising therefrom to the seat of the disease; and this, with cooling medicine and proper regimen, is seldom known to fail in curing this troublesome disease. DAPHNE laureola.
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