470 DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 



THE DEUTZIA. Deutzia. 



Another species of beautiful flowering shrubs for which we are 

 indebted to Japan. It belongs to the same family as the common 

 syringa, is similar in growth and foliage, but its style of bloom is 

 more graceful. The different varieties are among the most charm 

 ing late acquisitions to shrubberies, and already take rank with 

 lilacs, honeysuckles, and weigelas. The leaves are simple, serrated, 

 and opposite, about the size of syringa leaves, of coarse surface, 

 and without gloss ; they appear later than those of the lilac, or 

 about with the Weigela rosea, which the deutzias also resemble in 

 growth, though a little less spreading. The flowers, in most varie- 

 ties, pure white, appear in June, in pendulous little panicles or 

 racemes from two to four inches in length. Either on or off the 

 bush they are very graceful. 



THE ROUGH-LEAVED DEUTZIA, D. scabra, is the variety most 

 largely disseminated, and the coarsest and most robust grower. It 

 becomes a spreading bush from eight to twelve feet in height and 

 breadth. 



THE CRENATE-LEAVED DEUTZIA, D. crenata, differs principally 

 from the foregoing in having a less rank and more graceful habit. 



THE DOUBLE WHITE-FLOWERING CRENATE DEUTZIA, D. crenata 

 flore plena, differs in having double flowers in greater abundance. 



THE PINK-FLOWERING DOUBLE DEUTZIA, D. rubra flore plena, 

 is similar to the preceding in habit of growth, and the most beauti- 

 ful of all in bloom. This, and the double-white, are the finest large 

 sorts, and should be planted near together, where the colors will be 

 contrasted during their profuse blossoming. 



THE GRACEFUL DEUTZIA. D. gracilis. This is the smallest 

 variety and the greatest favorite. It is equally at home in the 

 green-house or in open ground, as it is readily forced into winter 

 bloom. Its flowers are white, in slender little racemes, in June. 

 On the bush, in bouquets, or wreathed with other flowers, the blos- 

 soms of the Deutzia gracilis are equally graceful. We remember no 

 church decoration so charming as the wreathing and bordering of 

 the pulpit and altar of a chapel in Brookline, Mass., decorated 



