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onlj a variety of the D. rosea. It is difficult to give an answer, now that 
our plant is young, and cannot be entirely characterized. 
It is therefore with reserve that we mention the D. amabilis. If we can 
judge by our own specimen, it promises to be very free flowering, for this 
one which flowered at Messrs. Thibaut & Keteleer's, No. 146 Rue de 
Charonne, in July last, (1853,) is but now (December, 1853), but ten inches 
high ; each of its three branches terminating in a panicle of flowers. It 
difi"ers also from the primitive type in its time of flowering ; but, upon this 
point, we cannot yet speak decidedly, for our plant is budded, and every 
one knows the influence which cultivation and difierent modes of propaga- 
tion exercise. 
4. I). Middendorfiana — Weigela Middendorfiana, Hort. — A shrub 
much resembling in habit and leaves the D. 7'osea. Flowers axillary, in 
groups of three or four, as in the former species, of a sulphur yellow, at 
least as lai;ge as those of D. rosea. To many persons the existence of 
D. Middendorfiana is still doubtful ; it is not so for us who have seen it in 
flower. We can therefore assert that it has yellow flowers. This species, 
introduced in 1850, is still rare, on account of its difficult preservation. 
Imported several times previously into England and France, it has always 
died, and it is difficult to procm^e it ; nevertheless, we have seen some small 
specimens at Mr. Pele's, and at Thibaut & Keteleer's, but their delicate 
state did not permit us to expect much from them. Introduced to us by 
Russia, this plant would appear to have come from the elevated and cold 
regions of Siberia and Mongolia. This habitat seems to indicate that it 
requires the open ground and free air, in order to vegetate properly; but 
as until now we have always done just the opposite, and have always placed 
it in the hot-honse to propagate, we can see our error. We should, on the 
contrary, procure it either in the autumn, after growth has ceased, or in 
spring, before the sap flows, and to plant in heath soil, in a rather shady 
situation, as is done with Rhododendrons. Perhaps, with these precautions, 
the multiplication of J). Middendorfiana may have some chance of success. 
Let us hope that it may take its place in our shrubberies by the side of its 
congeners, where it will produce a fine efiect with its yellow flowers, which 
will contrast well with those of D. rosea. 
SPECIES NOT INTKODUCED. 
B. fiorihunda, Sieb. and Zucc. Japanese name, Mumesahi utsugi, or 
utsugi with plum-like leaves, Kaempf. — This is a shrub, two to two-and-a 
half feet high, with the habit of Lonicera xylosteum ; branches slender. 
