Trust not too much to colour, beauteous boy; White privets fall, dark hyacinths are culled.
"The Bucolics and Eclogues"
Virgil
Most of the privets flower at mid-summer, but this species is often only at its best by the last week of October and beginning of November.
"Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs"
A. D. Webster
It flourishes, like most of the privets, on poor soil, and is a little-known species that note should be made of during the planting season.
"Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs"
A. D. Webster