The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Diphylleia

(from dis, double, and phyllon, a leaf; in allusion to each stem of the plant bearing only two alternate leaves). ORD. Berberideae. A pretty hardy herbaceous perennial. It thrives best in peat borders and edges of beds of American plants, in moist spots. Propagated by divisions, in spring. D. cymosa. (cymose).* Umbrella Leaf. fl. white, disposed in large loose heads or cymes. Summer. Berries blue, roundish. l. two, alternate, large, kidney shaped, usually profoundly lobed at the apex. h. 1ft. North America, 1812. (B. M. 1666.)

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