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well-formed, compact head, and a free bloomer. Another, 

 D. r. nana aitrea, has foliage of a rich golden color, 

 especially in spring during the freshness of the leaves. A 

 third, D. r. stelziteri, is distinguished by its multitude of 

 flowers of a reddish-purple tinge. Each of these dwarf 

 forms, of two to three feet, is well suited to crowded situ- 

 ations where there is no room for the larger kinds. 



D. Candida differs from the preceding chiefly in having 

 creamy-white flowers which do not appear until the first of 

 June. The plant is of a more upright growth and with 

 less disposition to spread by either its roots or branches, 

 and can be used to advantage as affording agreeable 

 contrasts with the darker shades or when planted by itself 

 wherever a shrub with beautiful white flowers at that sea- 

 son is desired. It is greatly to 

 be preferred to the D. horten- 

 sis nivea, also producing white 

 flowers, though the latter has 

 been much praised. 



D. amabilis, lovely weigela, 

 differs from the rosea in being 

 of more robust habit and in 

 growing to a larger size. Its 

 blossoms appear later, and at a 

 time when few shrubs in blos- 

 som grace the landscape. The 

 foliage is somewhat coarse and the flowers very conspicu- 

 ous. Many consider it the best of all the family, but it is 

 scarcely entitled to that pre-eminence. Its varieties worthy 

 of mention are the isolince, having flowers white with yellow 



WEIQELA VARIEQATA. 



