SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP.! 



349. DIERVILLA. See HONEYSUCKLE. 



350. DIOTIS SHRUBBY. Lat. Diotis candidissima. 

 Fr. Diotis cotonneuse. A hardy shrub from Siberia, 

 eight or nine inches high, and blows a yellow flower in 

 August. Propagated by layers, and cuttings will do 

 under a hand-glass. Likes a stony soil. 



351. FONTANESIA, phillyrea-leaved.'Lv.t. Fontanesia 

 phillyreo'ides. Fr. Fontanesia afeuilles de Jilaria. A hardy 

 shrub from Syria, ten or twelve feet high, and blows a 

 white flower in May. Good to put against walls, for the 

 purpose of hiding them. Propagated by suckers, cuttings, 

 and also by seed. Does well in almost any soil, if it be 

 not too moist. 



352. FUCHSIA. Lat. Fuchsia cocdnea.Fr. Fuchsie 

 tear Late. A pretty tender shrub, a native of Chili, where 

 it grows to the height of three or four feet. Its young 

 branches are delicate, and of a deep scarlet colour, as are 

 the tips of its leaves j and, throughout the summer) 

 months, it blows numerous little pendant flowers, the 

 upper part scarlet, and, towards the lower, becoming oi 

 a bluish violet. The young shoots strike freely under a' 

 hand-glass, which should frequently be tilted up a little! 

 to give air. A mixture of good loam and peat suits them ( 

 well. The green-house is the proper place for this! 

 plant, though in the summer it will do well turned out'; 

 into the open ground, and will even live through a mode-j 

 rate winter in England, if cut down and carefully covered 

 with litter j but it is generally potted in the beginning of 

 October, and then, having taken root, is placed in its;' 

 winter quarters. 





