weigelia

And the pink weigelia is almost a fool-proof shrub.

Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921

Rose suddenly inspected me and then Parti, as if he preferred the crack to be with cudgels; but in a second the little blaze vanished, and he only stripped a weigelia branch of every blossom.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

I've got pink tulip bulbs in the ground now and there are some pink flowering shrubs -- weigelia and flowering almond -- already there against the lattice of the veranda.

Ethel Morton's Enterprise 1903

"There is the weigelia that Dorothy has in front of this house; and forsythia -- we forced its yellow blossoms last week, you know; and the flowering almond -- that has whitey-pinky-buttony blossoms."

Ethel Morton's Enterprise 1903