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Ornamental Shrubs. 



According to Garden and Forest the seeds of this plant 

 were sent to the museum in Paris in 1888, by a French 

 missionary who had discovered it in the Chinese province 

 of Yun-nan. A specimen was secured by the Arnold 



DEUTZIA-PRIDE OF ROCHESTER. 



Arboretum at Cambridge, where it has flowered two or 

 three years. It is described as " a shrub of neat, compact 

 habit, two or three feet tall, with slender stems, thin, ovate 

 leaves scabrous on the upper surface, and compact panicles 

 of pale pink flowers." It is not yet known that it will 

 endure our northern winters. The place of its nativity 



