DAPH NE PONTICA. 
PONTIC DAPHNE. 
Class. 
OCTANDKIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
THYMELACEAl. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration, 
Introduced 
Pontus. 
4 feet. 
Apr. & May. 
Perennial. 
in 1759. 
No. 864. 
Daphne, a name well known in fable, but which 
originated, it seems probable, as the name of the 
Laurel. (See No. 256.) 
The Daphne Pontica is a hardy evergreen shrub, 
with handsome foliage, but with flowers possessing 
no gaiety. Plants, like men, generally have some 
redeeming quality, and we find that our Daphne 
has flowers that are fragrant, if not gay. Beside 
the variety of Daphne Pontica now figured, there 
are two others; the one with flowers of a dull red 
colour; and the other with green flowers and 
variegated leaves. Each of them hardy. 
This shrub grows freely in any common garden 
soil, and is readily increased by layers, or by 
grafting on the Daphne laureola, which is the 
favourite stock for grafting with all the more rare 
kinds of Daphne. The stocks are usually kept in 
pots, are headed down, in April, or the beginning 
of May, and then grafted, and afterwards placed in 
a close and shaded frame, for three months, before 
being fully exposed to the air. Plants thus 
obtained, it should be known, are shorter lived 
than those raised from layers. 
