DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. 411 
flowers and yellow berries. When a large number of 
bushes are planted together, they will perfume the air to 
a considerable distance. It thrives well in a loamy soil, 
and will grow in the shade and even in the drip of trees. 
DEUTZIA. 
[So named by Thunberg, in compliment to John Deutz, one of the senators 
of Amsterdam, a patron of botany, and one of the proffotors of the voyage of 
the former to Japan.] 
Detitzia scabra.—A very elegant shrub, a native of 
Japan. Is height is about six or eight feet, and during 
the early part of summer it is covered with a profusion 
of white blossoms, which are highly fragrant. The speci- 
fic name of the plant is given on account of the rough- 
ness of its leaves. 
D. gracilis.—This is a very graceful and elegant dwarf 
shrub, two or three feet high, with arching branches, 
which are loaded with pure white flowers in June; leaves 
smooth and deep green. This plant is useful for forcing 
in the green-house, where it flowers in as great profusion 
as out of doors, and should be taken up and potted as 
soon as the foliage is destroyed by frost. Both of these 
varieties are of easy culture, being sufficiently hardy to 
endure our winters without protection, and readily prop- 
agated by cuttings or from suckers. 
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DIERVILLA.—Wt¢r1a.—Busa-Honeysucnxe. 
{Named in honor of Dierville, a French surgeon.} 
Diervilla trifida, —Three-flowered Bush-Honeysuckle. 
—A neat little native shrub, from two to three feet high, 
with handsome opposite leaves, from the axils of which 
spring three yellow honeysuckle-shaped flowers, in June 
and July. 
