|is a very handsome Japanese
| | |variety, with large sterile
| | |flowers, pinkish mauve.
| | |Nigra or cyanoclada has
| | |purplish black stems, and
| | |is very notable on that
| | |account. Rosea has all the
| | |flowers sterile, and of
| | |rich rose colour. Stellata
| | |has the sterile flowers
| | |double and star-like.
| | |Thomas Hogg has white
| | |blossoms.
| | |
*H. paniculata |Japan |Creamy |A handsome shrub that may
| |white; |be grown as a dwarf bush or
| |Autumn |as a standard.
| | |
H. var. grandiflora| | |This is far more popular
| | |than the type, and is grown
| | |largely for flowering under
| | |glass as well as in the
| | |open ground. In this the
| | |huge pyramidal-shaped heads
| | |are composed entirely of
| | |sterile blossoms. If to be
| | |kept dwarf it must be
| | |pruned back hard when
| | |dormant, and only three
| | |or four shoots allowed to
| | |develop.
| | |
H. petiolaris |Japan |Creamy |A free-growing climber,
(Climbing | |white; |that attaches itself to a
Hydrangea) | |June and |wall by means of aerial
| |July |roots after