. The book of hardy flowers; a simple and complete descriptive guide to the cultivation in gardens of the trees and shrubs, perennial and annual flowers, that are hardy, or are suitable for planting out-of-doors in summer in temperate countries. Floriculture. DIPELTA 157 tree is valuable for the manufacture of shuttles, etc., whilst that of several tropical kinds is extremely valuable on account of its colouring and hardness. Diospyros Ebcnum, from South India and Ceylon, is the Ebony of commerce, and Kurzii is the celebrated Andaman Marble or Zebra Wood. Another, Diospyros Kaki, of Japan, pro
. The book of hardy flowers; a simple and complete descriptive guide to the cultivation in gardens of the trees and shrubs, perennial and annual flowers, that are hardy, or are suitable for planting out-of-doors in summer in temperate countries. Floriculture. DIPELTA 157 tree is valuable for the manufacture of shuttles, etc., whilst that of several tropical kinds is extremely valuable on account of its colouring and hardness. Diospyros Ebcnum, from South India and Ceylon, is the Ebony of commerce, and Kurzii is the celebrated Andaman Marble or Zebra Wood. Another, Diospyros Kaki, of Japan, produces a valuable fruit which is known as the Kaki of Japan, or the Chinese Date Plum ; there arc many cultiv- ated varieties, which are used in a fresh and dried state. Fruits have been ripened on walls in the South of England, and the tree is suitable for cultivation in a greenhouse, where a crop of fruit is far more certain than Dipelta.—This is a new class of shrubs from China, allied to the Dier- villa and belonging to the Honeysuckle family (Caprifolia- ceae). The flowers are similar in shape to those of Dier- villa (Bush Honey- suckle), but have several minor structural differences, the most conspicuous being the presence of two bracts at the base of each flower which continue to grow after the flower fades and remain until the seeds are ripe. The cultural re- quirements are similar to those recommended for Diervilla. The chief species are : elegans, a bush 3 to 4 feet high ; floribunda, found in Hupeh, growing from 10 to 15, but sometimes 40 feet high : the flowers are borne in clusters during May and June, and are rose-pink without and white and orange within ; ventricosa, a bush 6 to 15 feet 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 Thomas, H. H. (Harry Higgott) ed. New
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