Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . the summer of 1910I saw it naturalised ina wood just above theFalls of Niagara, onthe Canadian side,very damp, and traversed by a multitude of streams making their way to the river. Var. ALBA, Aiton.—Flowers dullish white ; fruits bright yellow. Thisvariety comes true from seed, and is somewhat more robust than the red-flowered type. A form with purer white blossoms is known as Pauls is also a form with double white flowers.—var. aiho Var. GRANDIFLORA, Dippcl (D. autumnalis, Hort.).—Commences toflower in O
Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles . the summer of 1910I saw it naturalised ina wood just above theFalls of Niagara, onthe Canadian side,very damp, and traversed by a multitude of streams making their way to the river. Var. ALBA, Aiton.—Flowers dullish white ; fruits bright yellow. Thisvariety comes true from seed, and is somewhat more robust than the red-flowered type. A form with purer white blossoms is known as Pauls is also a form with double white flowers.—var. aiho Var. GRANDIFLORA, Dippcl (D. autumnalis, Hort.).—Commences toflower in October and lasts until February. The flowers are rather largerthan in the type, and equally richly coloured and fragrant. As it does not bearfruit usually, it is grafted on the type, which is readily propagated by seeds. D. , Loddigcs.(D. Fioniana, Hort. ; D. Delahayana, Hort.) A dense, erect-branched shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, of bushy habit, and ever-green ; shoots dark brown, with minute forward-pointing hairs. Leaves short-. Daphne HKAPOLITANA. 472 DAPHNE stalked, scattered along the branches, oblanceolate or narrowly obovate, roundedor obtusely angled at the apex ; f to i^ ins. long, J to -V in. wide ; dark glossygreen and smooth above, glaucous and more or less haiiy towards the basebeneath. Flowers in one or more leafy clusters at the apex of the branches,from ten to fourteen flowers in a cluster, opening successively from March toMay, and even later ; at first they are rosy purple, but turn pale with age,sweetly scented, I in. long and wide, covered outside with minute whitishdown. Fruit not seen. This Daphne, which is one of the most robust and easiest to cultivate ofa difficult class of plants, would appear to be a hybrid of natural , who gave an excellent figure of it in Bo^. Reg.^ t. 820, called itD. collina var. neapolitana. The general opinion now held is that it is ahybrid ; its parentage is usually given as collina x Cneorum, but I s
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