. Ornamental shrubs for garden, lawn, and park planting, with an account of the origin, capabilities, and adaptations of the numerous species and varieties, native and foreign, and especially of the new and rare sorts, suited to cultivation in the United States. Shrubs. Diervilla—Weigela. 151 of April and May. One great recommendation to it, is that it is a plant of the easiest cultivation. Cuttings readily strike any time during the winter and spring months, with ordinary attention, and the plant itself grows well in any good soil. It should be grown as it is in China, not tied up in that for
. Ornamental shrubs for garden, lawn, and park planting, with an account of the origin, capabilities, and adaptations of the numerous species and varieties, native and foreign, and especially of the new and rare sorts, suited to cultivation in the United States. Shrubs. Diervilla—Weigela. 151 of April and May. One great recommendation to it, is that it is a plant of the easiest cultivation. Cuttings readily strike any time during the winter and spring months, with ordinary attention, and the plant itself grows well in any good soil. It should be grown as it is in China, not tied up in that formal, unnatural way in which we see plants brought to our exhibitions, but a main stem or two chosen for leaders, and then when the plant comes into bloom, the branches are loaded with beautiful flowers which hang down in graceful and natural ; D. rosea is the plant which thus attract- ed Mr. Fortune's attention, and is still the best known of the several species. His account, as given above, is sufficiently full and accurate to represent it as it appears in this country, where it has made itself entirely at home. The shrub possesses a tendency to a somewhat straggling growth not altogether objectionable, though it must be cut back severely and at the proper time, if a more regular and com- pact head is desired. It grows to a height of six to eight feet, with numerous slender stems and branches. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate with finely toothed edges, and are of good color throughout the summer. The flowers put forth in early spring in great profusion, and are deep rose, sometimes freely marked with white. There are several varieties, one, D. r. nana, a veritable dwarf with a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davis, Lucius Daniel, 1826-1900. New York, London, G. P. Putnam's so
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