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Chinesische Blumen : Die Hydrangea
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Flowers. Vol. IV. No. 66., FLOWERS OF CHINA., The Hydrangea. (Hydrangea hortensis.), The native country of this exquisite and beautiful flower is China and Japan where it was difeovered as an ornamental plant by some Englishmen who first brought it to England; it was introduced some years ago into our gardens where it still lias the first rank among the flowers of fashion. It Avas first called Hortenfia but is now generally named by Botanists Hydrangea., Its bush commonly attains the height of 12 or 16 inches and is provided with superb dark-green oval leaves cuspi dated on both their ends. Its large flower-bundles which very osten have 6 or g inches in diameter partake very much of the form of a double guelderRose and give it a most beautiful aspect., These bundles which appear in May and June, are at first of a yellow green caft, but soon change into the fineft Rose colour, and become of a pale violet before they entirely fade. They last about two months. Their size, beauty and fplendour charm the eye, but they are deftitute of ail fragrancy. The Hydrangea, tho' not of a very tender nature, only thrives in Germany in hot houfes or at leaft in luch rooms, where no frost can penetrate.
