DEUTZIA 



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Deutzia. The Deutzias are beautiful, nearly hardy Asiatic shruhs 

 in extensive cultivation with clustered white or pink flowers in spring and 

 summer. The opposite simple leaves are covered (as seen with a lens) 

 with star-shaped hairs. The flowers, when single, have 5 thick petals 

 and 10 stamens with broad' flat stalks ; they are in clusters (racemes, 

 corymbs, and panicles) at the ends of the branches. The fruit is hemi- 

 spheric with the calyx lobes, if not deciduous, on the broad end ; the 

 seeds are numerous in the 3 to 5 cells. The flowers are j to | inch 

 broad and the seed pod J to J inch. 



Fig. 296. — Rose-tin ted Double 

 Deutzia. 



Fig. 297. — Lemoine's Deutzia. 



The smallest species, Sieeold's Deutzia — Deutzia Sieboldi^na, — 

 grows only 2 feet high, with white flowers in June, and is rare in cultiva- 

 tion. The next in size. Slender Deutzia (294) — Deutzia gracilis, — 

 is about 3 feet high with slender and often arching branches, larger and 

 more abundant white flowers in May and June, and is common ; in this 

 the stamens are much shorter than the erect petals. 



There are several tall species, to 7 feet, with rough leaves and sin- 

 gle or double, white or reddish flowers. The most coaimon of these, 

 Kough-leaved Deutzia (295) — Deutzia sca,bra, — and its many varieties 

 (crenata, Pride of Rochester, Rose-tinted Double Deutzia (296), AVa- 

 tereri, etc.) have erect petals, blooming June and July. The other 

 species have spreading and, in the bud, more or less lapping petals, the 

 flowers in broad flat clusters, corymbs. Several species have yellow or 

 variegated foliage. [Twig cuttings ; seeds.] 



