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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF DEUTZIA 



* Flowers in elongated clusters with the petals edge to edge, not lap- 

 ping. (A.) 



A. Low plant, 2 feet, with small light green rough leaves ; flowers 



in compound clusters, panicles.* Siebold's Deutzia — Deutzia 



Siebolditina. 

 A. Low plant, 3 feet, with small, bright green rather smooth 



leaves and flowers in nearly simple clusters, racemes. 



Slender Deutzia or Bridal Wreath (294) — Deutzia gracilis. 



A. Tall plant, C feet, with dull green rough leaves (1-3 inches 

 long) ; flowers in compound clusters, panicles. Kodgh-leaved 

 Deutzia (295) — Deutzia sc^bra. 



* Flowers in broad clusters, corymbs. (B.) 



B. Tall, 7 feet ; flowers white with the petals edge to edge in the 

 bud ; leaves dark green above, much paler beneath. Deutzia 

 discolor. 



B. 3-4 feet ; petals edge to edge, pinkish outside; calyx red. Pa- 

 TUNG Snow-flower — Deutzia discolor purpurascens. 



B. Spreading shrub to 3 feet 



Fig. 298. — I.arge-flowered 

 Hydiaugea. 



flowers white with petals partially 

 lapping in the bud. Lemoine's 

 Deutzia (297) — Deutzia Le- 

 moinei. 

 B. Erect shrub to G feet ; flowers with 

 their petals decidedly lapping at 

 their edges in the bud. Small- 

 flowered Deutzia — Deutzia 

 parviflora. 



Hydrangea. The most popular 

 shrub in cultivation North at the 

 opening of the twentieth century 

 was, probably, a variety of one of the 

 25 species of Hydrangeas, Large- 

 flowered Hydrangea (298) -^ Hy- 

 drangea paniculkta grandiflora. The 

 Hydrangeas have opposite simple 

 serrated (rarely lobed) leaves. The 

 flowers are usually of two kinds in 

 large more or less rounded clusters, 

 small ones with 4 or 5 petals and 

 8 or 10 stamens, producing small cap- 



