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D. résea,— Wiegela rosea.—Rose-colored Wiegela.— 
This shrub was first introduced from Japan as a new ge- 
‘nus, to which the name of Wiegela was given. Botanists 
have since placed it in the old genus Diervilla, but the 
name Wiegela has become so well established that it will 
serve for the common name of the shrub, it being the only 
one that it has. “When I first discovered this beautiful 
plant,” says Mr. Fortune, the gentleman to whom we are 
indebted for its introduction, “it was growing in a Man- 
darin’s garden, on the island of Chusan, and literally 
loaded with its fine rose-colored flowers, which hung in 
graceful bunches from the axils of the leaves and the ends 
of the branches. Everyone saw and admired the beauti- 
ful Wiegela. I immediately marked it as one of the fin- 
est plants in Northern China, and determined to send 
plants of it home in every ship, until I should hear of its 
safe arrival. It forms a neat bush, not unlike a Syringa 
in habit, deciduous in winter, and flowering in the months 
of April and May. One great recommendation to it is, 
that it is a plant of the easiest cultivation. Cuttings 
strike readily, any time during the winter and spring 
months, with ordinary attention, and the plant itself 
grows well in any ordinary soil. It should be grown in 
this country as it is in China, not tied up in that formal 
unnatural way in which we see plants brought to our ex- 
hibitions; but a main stem or two chosen for leaders, 
which, in their turn, throw out branches from their sides, 
and then, when the plant comes into bloom, the branches, 
which are loaded with beautiful flowers, hang down in 
graceful and natural festoons.” Several fine varieties are 
now in cultivation. The variety amabilis, formerly con- 
sidered a species, and called Wiegela amabalis, has a 
more drooping habit, rather larger leaves and somewhat 
smaller and deeper colored flowers. The variety Zsoline 
has white flowers. Desboisii, has very dark flowers, and 
