296 MANUAL OF GARDENING 
Deutzia, Deutzia scabra (or crenata) and varieties. 
Standard shrubs; the variety ‘Pride of Rochester,” with pinkish flowers, 
is perhaps the best form for the North; 4-6 ft. Of this and the next there 
are forms with ornamental foliage. 
Small deutzia, D. gracilis. 
Very close little bush, with pure white flowers; 2-3 ft. 
Lemoine’s deutzia, D. Lemoinet. 
A hybrid, very desirable; 1-3 ft. 
Weigela, Diervilla Japonica and other species. 
Free bloomers, very fine, in many colors, 4-6 ft.; the forms known as 
candida,t rosea, t and Sieboldii variegata,t are hardy and good. 
Leatherwood, Dirca palustris.* 
If well grown, the leatherwood makes a very neat plant; blossoms appear 
before the leaves, but not showy; 4-6 ft. 
Russian olive, oleaster, Eleagnus angustifolia.t 
Foliage silvery white; very hardy; becoming a small tree, 15-20 ft. 
Wolf-willow, E. argentea.*} 
Large and silvery leaves; suckers badly; 8-12 ft. 
Goumi, EL. longipes (sometimes called FE. edulis). 
Attractive spreading bush, with handsome edible cranberry-like berries; 
5-6 ft. 
Burning-bush, Zuonymus atropurpureus.* 
Very attractive in fruit; 8-12 ft., or even becoming tree-like. 
Several other species are in cultivation, some of them evergreen. In the 
North, success may be expected with #. Europeus (sometimes a small tree), 
E. alatus, E. Bungeanus, E. latifolius, and perhaps others. 
Exochorda, Exochorda grandiflora. 
A large and very showy shrub, producing a profusion of apple-like white 
flowers in early spring; 6-12 ft; allied to the spireas. 
Forsythia, Forsythia viridissima. 
Blossoms yellow, appearing before the leaves; requires protection in many 
places North; 6-10 ft. 
Drooping forsythia, F’. suspensa. 
Makes an attractive mass on a bank or border; 6-12 ft. 
