Beautiful Flowering Shrubs 



of the eighteenth century, and in his record of the 

 " Flora of Japan" (1784) he described and named 

 them. And "Deutzia" is yet another instance of a 

 memorial name given in gratitude, for it keeps the 

 memory green of worthy Senator Van der Deutz, of 

 Amsterdam, who, a true naturalist at heart, encouraged 

 by word and substance the botanist in his adventurous 

 and even dangerous explorations, and Thunberg adopted 

 this graceful way of complimenting his patron. 



Apparently the first time a living Deutzia was seen 

 in England was in 1822, when a certain John Reeves 

 is recorded as having imported "a new hardy shrub of 

 Fakon," to wit Deutzia scabra, now commonly known 

 as Deutzia crenata, and the species most generally 

 found in our gardens to-day ; but it took time to 

 become known, for in 1838 the Florecultural Magazine 

 records it among the new plants. It is one of the 

 hardiest of shrubs, bold and handsome, and in its 

 native land is commonly seen forming long hedges in 

 company with honeysuckles, viburnums and the spindle 

 trees. Its leaves are deciduous, their simple outline 

 finely toothed. Almost stalkless, they stand facing one 

 another in pairs, and their surface is coated with 

 minute, roughish hairs which give the plant its specific 

 name (scabra rough), and cause the foliage to be used 

 by Japanese joiners for smoothing and polishing their 



work. 



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