DEUTZIAS” . IQI 
the winter outdoors without protection, but in very cold or exposed 
situations they should be covered with dry fern or similar protective 
material. 
Description of Hydrangea Hortensia, the Common Hydrangea, is here 
shown a little less than the natural size. The upper 
corymb consists entirely of sterile flowers, but below it is a similar cluster 
of fertile flowers with four barren flowers at its circumference. F ig. 1 
shows a fertile flower enlarged, and Fig. 2 an enlarged section through 
the carpels of the same. 
DEUTZIAS 
Natural Order SAxIrRAGEX. Genus Deutzia 
DEUTZIA (name given by Thunberg in honour of his friend Johann 
Deutz). A small genus, comprising only about seven species, of 
deciduous shrubs of a very ornamental character. They have opposite, 
stalked and toothed leaves, oval or lance-shaped, and covered with 
star-shaped hairs. The flowers are white or pinkish, scentless. Petals 
five; stamens ten, five long and five short; the filaments often dilated, 
and three-lobed near the extremity, the middle lobe bearing the anther, 
Ovary three- or four-celled, with as many erect thread-shaped styles. 
Capsule globular, leathery, opening by several slits in the middle. 
Natives of India, China, and J apan. They are spring-flowering shrubs, 
but by forcing, flowers are obtained from J anuary onwards. 
: EUTZIA CORYMBOSA (flowers in corymbs). Stems 
5 feet high. Leaves oblong or lance-shaped. Flowers 
white, corymbs panicled. Native of Himalaya. 
D. CRENATA (round-toothed leaves). Stems slender, 4 to 8 feet. 
Leaves broad, lance-shaped, with rigid teeth ; rough to the touch. 
Flowers white, in panicles or racemes. The ordinary form is better 
known in gardens as D. scwbra, but there is a true D. scabra (not 
cultivated); it is also known as D. Fortunei, but these are mere garden 
names. There are two double varieties: flore pleno, with pink and 
white flowers; and purpurea plena, with flowers of a deeper tint. 
Native of Japan. 
____ D. eraciis (slender). Stems numerous, slender, 3 to 5 feet 
high. Leaves small, oval, smooth, saw-toothed. Flowers small, white, 
numerous, in terminal racemes; March to May. Natiy 
Pls oF ay. ative of Japan. 
Species, 
