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tree attains, under favorable conditions, in a few years a height of 10 to 12 feet 

 or more. C. frutescens also produces flowers more abundantly and the indi- 

 vidual flowers are larger. It is a most attractive object when in bloom, as the 

 whole bush is thickly covered with bright yellow pea-shaped flowers. The 

 flowers open early in the season and are succeeded by small green seed-pods 

 which, when approaching ripeness, change to a dull reddish color, and, when 

 fully ripe, they burst and the seeds are scattered. This desirable shrub is easily 

 raised from seed, which may be sown in the autumn as soon as fully ripe, o 

 early in the spring. 



3. Large Flowered Variegated Weigelia. Diervilla grandiflora 

 variegata. — The cultivated weigelias which are now referred by botanists to the 







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Fig. 857. — Vax Hoctttb's Spfr^sa. 



genus Diervilla^ are among the most beautiful flowering shrubs in cultivation. 

 The large flowered weigelia is a native of Japan — a country which has given us 

 in recent times many beautiful shrubs and flowers. The foliage on the ordinary 

 form of this shrub is green, but in the variegated form, to which reference is 

 here specially made, the leaves are beautifully margined with white, which makes 

 it a most attractive object on the lawn at all seasons of the year. When in 

 bloom the flowers are so profuse that much of the foliage is hidden. The 

 flowers are white shaded with rose and are funnel shaped at the base, they are 

 produced in axillary and terminal clusters. Fig. 856 shows one of these shrubs 

 in bloom, a specimen in the arboretum of the Experimental Farm. Most of 



