This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V18", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
It will be seen by the following from the Journal of Horticulture, that this very sweet and popular plant can be grafted on the privet:
"Olea fragrans is flowering in the Economic house, at Kew, and possesses a perfume of the most delicious description. The flowers are small and of a pale yellow color, but grow many together in numerous clusters. They are used in China for scenting teas. That called pekoe is a green tea much prized for the scent imparted to it by - these flowers. The species is well worth growing in conservatories for its perfume. It is easily grown and succeeds on its own roots, but is perhaps hardier grafted on privet. A plant so grafted has withstood the last two or three winters against a wall."
 
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