Deutzia. 



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planting. The genus is not large, but the number of 

 varieties is constantly increasing, some of which are in 

 marked distinction from the type. 



D. crenata is now described as the type from which 

 several others, heretofore classed as distinct species, are 

 recognized simply as varieties. It is a fine shrub six to 

 eight feet high, and often throwing 

 up several stems from the same root, 

 the whole forining a well-proportioned 

 head quite as broad as its height. 

 The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 

 serrulate, somewhat rigid or stif¥, 

 and rough to the touch. The 

 flowers are white, in racemes or 

 panicles, and very pretty. It was 

 at one time largely planted, but 

 in later years has given way to 

 some of its varieties which have 

 been found to possess all its good 

 qualities with some others in 

 addition. D. c. candidissima 

 plena is one of these, of which 

 scarcely too much can be said in praise. The white 

 blossoms are double and so numerous that the bush in 

 its flowering season has the appearance of a mass of 

 small rosettes. D. scabra has long been spoken of as 

 a species, but is now counted as another variety of the 

 crenata. It, too, is a good plant, having single flowers, 

 white within, and marked with pink or purple on the out- 

 side of the calix. D. waterii has also been claimed as 



DEUTZIA CRENATA. 



