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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF DEDTZIA 



* Flowers in elongated clusters with the petals edge to edge, not lap- 

 ping. (A.) 



A. Low plant, 2 feet, with small light green rough leaves ; flowers 



in compound clusters, panicles. Siebold's Deutzia — Deutzia 



Sieboldi^na. 

 A. Low plant, 3 feet, with small, bright green rather smooth 



leaves and flowers in nearly simple clusters, racemes. 



Slendek Dedtzia or Bridal Wreath (294) — Deutzia gricilis. 



A. Tall plant, 6 feet, with dull green rough leaves (1-3 inches 

 long) ; flowers in compound clusters, panicles. EonOH-LEAVED 

 Dectzia (295) — Deutzia sc&,bra. 



* Flowers in broad clusters, corymbs. (B.) 



B. Tall, 7 feet ; flowers white with the petals edge to edge in the 

 bud ; leaves dark green above, much paler beneath. Deutzia 

 discolor. 



B. 3-4 feet ; petals edge to edge, pinkish outside ; calyx red. Pa- 



TUNG Snow-flowek — Dcutzia dfecoloi' purpurfecens. 

 B. Spreading shrub to 3 feet ; flowers white with petals partially 



lapping in the bud. Lemoine's 

 ^Ug? ^o^ _ Deutzia (297) — Deutzia Le- 



moiiiei. 

 B. 'Erect shrub to 6 feet; flowers with 

 their petals decidedly lapping at 

 their edges in the bud. Small- 

 FLOWEBED Del'tzia — Dcutzia 

 parviflftra. 



Hydr4ngea. The most popular 

 shrub in cultivation North at the 

 opening of the twentieth century 

 was, probably, a vai-iety of one of the 

 25 species of Hydrangeas, Lakge- 

 ri-owERED Hydrangea (298) — Hy- 

 drangea paniculita grandiflbra. The 

 Hydrangeas .have opposite simple 

 serrated (rarely lobed) leaves. The 

 flowers are usually of two kinds in 

 large more or less rounded clusters, 

 small ones with 4 or 5 petals and 

 8 or 10 stamens, producing small cap- 



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Fig. 298. — Large-flowered 

 Hydrangea. 



