Ligustrum vulgare (Privet)

This is a smooth shrub, growing five or six feet high.  The leaves are dark-green, one or two inches in length, about half as wide, entire, smooth, lanceolate, and on short petioles.  The flowers wide, entire, smooth, lanceolate, and on short petioles.  The flowers are small, white, and numerous, and fruit a spherical black berry.  In England the Privet is carried up with many slender branches to a reasonable height and breadth, to cover arbors, bowers, and banqueting houses, and brought or wrought into many fantastic forms, as birds, men, horses.