Weigelia 
Rosea 
38 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CAPRIFOERSCE.. 
The genus Weigela of Thunberg (or Weigelia), 
to which this plant was referred, is re-united by 
Bentham and Hooker with Diervilla ; and indeed 
the differences seem but slight; yet this shrub 
will no doubt retain in common language, the 
name by which it has already become well known. 
It flowers with us sometimes in the latter days of 
May, more usually in the first half of June. The 
flowers are scentless, but very beautiful : of various 
shades of rose colour in their different stages of 
expansion, from the deep bright carmine of the 
buds, to the almost white interior of the newly 
opened corolla, and then on to the full but less 
vivid rose of the mature blossoms. When not in 
flower the shrub is well described by Fortune as 
having the general appearance of a small Philadel- 
phus. 
