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DIERVILLA 



funnel-shaped, I in. long, with five spreading lobes at the mouth, where it is 

 f in. across, downy outside ; of a dark, almost blood-red. Calyx ^ in. long, 

 consisting of a tube and five narrow linear lobes, hairy. Seed-vessel 

 cylindrical, narrow, downy. 



Native of the mountains of 

 Japan ; introduced to Europe 

 about 1860. The typical D. 

 floribunda is now very rare in 

 cultivation, but it is the species, 

 whose characteristics and 

 colour of flower are dominant 

 in the dark crimson-flowered 

 garden varieties like LAVAL- 

 LEI, LOWEI, and EVA RATHKE. 

 Although the flowers are 

 smaller than in other Asiatic 

 species, their splendid colour- 

 ing makes this species and its 

 group of varieties inferior to 

 none. 



Var. VERSICOLOR is figured 

 by Siebold and Zuccarini in the 

 Flora Jafionica, t. 33. It is 

 said to have flowers at first 

 whitish, reddening with age. 



D. FLORIDA, Siebold. 



CWeigela rosea, Lindky, Bot. Mag., 

 t. 4396 ; W. amabilis of gardens.) 



A shrub 6 or 7 ft. high, of 

 spreading habit and arching 

 branches ; young shoots with 

 two lines of short hairs. Leaves 

 oval or oval-lanceolate, long- 

 pointed, toothed except at the 

 base, felted on the midrib be- 

 neath ; 2 to 4^ ins. long, f to \\ 

 ins. wide ; very shortly stalked. Flowers ofte"n in terminal threes or fours on 

 short lateral twigs. Corolla funnel-shaped, i^ ins. long, with five spreading 

 rounded lobes at the mouth, where it is as much in diameter ; deep rose 

 on the outside, paler and becoming almost white within ; stigma bilobed. 

 Calyx with five slender, erect lobes \ to \ in. long, awl-shaped, nearly smooth ; 

 ovary downy. 



Native of China ; introduced for the Horticultural Society by Fortune in 

 1845. It is perhaps the commonest of Diervillas, being usually known by 

 Lindley's name of Wiegela rosea ; it is one of the parents of many of the fine 

 garden varieties. Blossoms in May and June. 



Var. CANDIDA. Flowers pure white. A hardier white variety and more 

 serviceable in gardens than D. japonica hortensis. 



Var. LOOYMANSI AUREA. Leaves yellow ; perhaps of hybrid origin. 

 Var. VARIEGATA. A good variegated shrub ; leaves edged with pale 

 yellow ; flowers deep rose. A form of this, NANA, is dwarf and has the leaves 

 edged with creamy white. Flowers very pale rose. 



DIERVILLA FLORIBUNDA. 



