SPIRJE'A BELLA. 
PRETTY SPIRAEA. 
Order. 
PENTAGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ROSACEA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Nepal. 
3 feet. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1818. 
. No. 409. 
The thin and pliant stems of some of the plants 
belonging- to this genus, seem to have given rise to 
the origin and application of the present name, 
from the Greek speira, signifying a cord. Bella, 
from the Latin, pretty ; and none will deny the pro- 
priety of the connexion of this name with so elegant 
a shrub as the one now described. 
Its general habit is not greatly unlike that of the 
raspberry ; producing long succulent bottom shoots, 
annually ; part of which it will, generally, be best 
to cut away in the autumn, and give the remaining 
part proper support, by tying them to a slender 
stake; or to a trellis, against which they may be 
appropriately planted. Perhaps the most elegant 
effect is produced in the flower garden, by this 
plant, when a single stem only is permitted to grow 
from each stool. This being shortened in winter, 
to about three fourths of its original height, and its 
lateral shoots left but a few inches long, it will emit 
its numerous flowering branches in June, and assume 
an airy gaiety, highly ornamental. It will show 
elegance in the parterre as Sir Thomas Lawrence’s 
paintings do in the picture gallery. 
•103 Loudon’s Ency. Plants, 428. 
Class. 
ICOSANDRIA. 
