Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



believe that its detractors can ever have seriously con- 

 sidered a free-growing Weigela in a happy situation 

 at the height of its beauty. For then it is nothing 

 more or less than a garland shrub, whose long thin 

 shoots, gracefully curving in all directions, are just 

 closely-set pink garlands offering themselves as joy 

 wreaths for some gala-day. Its beauty in those May 

 days is lavish compensation for a little straggling and 

 uninterestingness at other seasons. 



The Diervillas with yellow flowers, viz. D. cana- 

 densis or lonicera, and D. sessilifolia, hail from the 

 West and not from the East, and were known here a 

 century earlier than W. rosea. A French surgeon, one 

 M. Dierville, was the first to bring D. canadensis into 

 Europe from North America (about 1739), and Tourne- 

 fort, the eminent French botanist, named it after him. 

 But neither is of any particular value in a garden 

 except perhaps for its bright foliage in the autumn. 



Soil and Cultivation. The Diervillas will flourish 

 in any ordinary garden soil, provided it is a little 

 damp, but an open uncrowded position, either in isola- 

 tion or at the edge of a shrubbery, will secure the 

 most satisfactory results. Their propagation is best 

 effected by cuttings taken at the end of May and 

 placed under glass, when they will root in about a 

 fortnight. 



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