Deutzia. 7 



to the Imperial Botanic Garden of St. Petersburg, from 

 which point it has, within a few years, been distributed 

 throughout Europe and America. It grows in clumps, 

 consisting of numerous erect stems or branches from four 

 to six feet in length, which are clothed with dark green 

 leaves, lanceolate, toothed, somewhat wrinkled, and of 

 good substance. The flowers are creamy-white, com- 

 posed of five petals, and without any splashes of color, the 

 bunches somewhat resembling in size and arrangement 

 those of the lilac. They appear a week or two before 

 those of D. gracilis, which has heretofore been supposed 

 to be the earliest as well as most floriferous of all the 

 deutzias, and about a month in advance of most other 

 varieties. 



D. lemoinei is a hybrid between the gracilis and the 

 parviflora, and was brought out by Monsieur Lemoine, 

 the noted hybridist, who has done so much to add to the 

 pleasures of horticulture and the brilliancy of our gardens. 

 The plant is described as having stouter and more up- 

 right branches than the gracilis, and shorter and more 

 numerous than those of the parviflora. The blossoms are 

 about three quarters of an inch in diameter, and are borne 

 in loose, many-flowered terminal panicles on axillary leafy 

 shoots, with pure white, broadly ovate-rounded, spreading 

 petals and reddish-yellow stamens. This is believed to 

 be an improvement on the almost universally popular 

 D. gracilis, and destined to largely supersede it as it 

 becomes better known. 



D. discolor, var. purptirascens, is, perhaps, the latest 

 hopeful introduction among the deutzias to our country. 



