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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1918 



are certainly more favorable, for the plants 

 have proved entirely hardy here for the three 

 winters of their life with me, one of the win- 

 ters being so rough and tough as to bite chunks 

 of green out of the husky Japanese Yew. 



The picture tells the story, all but the 

 color, and the color of light cream white and 

 dull rose is "all right," to lapse into slang. 

 I suggest its trial by other planters who care to 

 realize how liberally God has showered flowers 

 upon all the continents of this beautiful world. 



THE name, longifolia, can be said with- 

 out tongue-twisting; but how about 

 the other Deutzia I 

 have pictured, which 

 owns the formidable 

 cognomen of Deutzia 

 Sch neideriana v a r . 

 laxiflora ! Can even 

 so good a shrub over- 

 come the handicap of 

 such Latin profanity? 

 Friends who visit my 

 garden constantly ask 

 me plant names; and 

 when I have answered 

 their queries in front 

 of this plant, I have 

 noted the justified 

 scorn with which they 

 are likely to listen to 

 such a lip scorcher. 

 Mr. Schneider was, 

 orjis, doubtless a most 

 excellent gentleman, 

 and I am entirely neu- 

 tral as to where he 

 came from, or may 

 have gone to; but 

 why, in the name of 

 plain English, must 

 he or his memory be 

 celebrated by tagging 

 a decent plant with 

 such a Teuton-Latin 

 aggregation of the al- 

 phabet? Let us call 

 it the Chinese Large-flowering Deutzia for 

 awhile, anyway, until someone invents a 

 "common" name that will be fair to this fine 

 flower. 



For a fine flower is this Chinese immigrant, 

 certainly. It happened last year that one 

 twig at the very bottom of the three-foot plant 

 opened more than two weeks ahead of the 

 proper flowiering time for the species, and so 

 permitted me to photograph it in exact 

 comparison with Deutzia Lemoinei compacta. 

 The blooms, very much like the Lemoine 

 favorite, were a full inch across, and practic- 

 ally twice the size. 



The comparison was made May 25, when 

 Lemoinei was at its maximum. The "Large- 

 flowering Chinese" Deutzia is much later, and 

 the other photograph, made May 12, shows 



By a lucky chance one branch 

 alongside of D. 



of the new Chinese large-flowering Deutzia (left) bloomed early enough to be photographed 

 Lemoinei compacta (right). The difference in size of flowers is remarkable 



how effective and how floriferous it was. And 

 it stood out distinctly amongother good shrubs, 

 despite its rather awkward form. The growth 

 is upright, and as it gets its age, it may as- 



sume a more graceful attitude, but I shall like 

 it anyway for its distinct and pleasant flowers. 

 No suggestion is made that "Schneideriana 

 laxiflora" is not entirely hardy. My plants 

 have been through the same three winters as 

 longifolia, since the former came to me ahead 

 of its awful name, as Deutzia 570 Wilson, and 

 I believe it will be found to stand Middle 

 States hardships. It is now a rampant 

 grower, like, for instance Spiraea Henryi, 

 which is a merit for most gardens. I am 

 liberal to my shrubs, and most of them give 

 me a full return; but I can with complacence 

 see a plant maintain a moderate vigor, 

 because of certain of 

 them which have 

 been otherwise dis- 

 posed, and have en- 

 deavored to cover 

 too large a part of my 

 precious two acres of 

 Breeze Hill garden! 



"V*/" HERE may 



» * these shrubs 

 be obtained? I do 

 not know, but I sus- 

 pect one enterprising 

 Boston nurseryman 

 of having plants; and 

 if those who look 

 beyond the baker's 

 dozen of shrubs which 

 nurserymen seem 

 most in love with 

 will keep demanding 

 other newer and bet- 

 ter things, mayhap 

 these backward 

 tradesmen may even 

 sometimes go to the 

 shrub heaven of the 

 Arnold Arboretum, 

 there to see the gar- 

 den riches which 

 ought to add to the 

 scanty variety they 

 offer to aspiring 

 planters. So go after them for these good 

 Deutzias, my garden-improving friends; the 

 demand will be good for their retiring na- 

 tures! 



Origin of Some Hybrids of Deutzia alfred rehder 



jV/JY ATTENTION has been fcalled to a 

 statement made by Mr. John Dunbar 

 in the May 1917 number of The Garden 

 Magazine regarding the origin of Deutzia 

 myriantha. Mr. Dunbar says that according 

 to Lemoine this hybrid is a cross between the 

 parviflora and D. setchuenensis, while I had 

 given D. Lemoinei and D. purpurascens as 

 the parents. After a careful examination of 

 material of this plant I have no doubt that 

 D. myriantha is a hybrid between D. parvi- 

 flora and D. setchuenensis as stated by Le- 

 moine, and that it has no close relation to the 

 varieties Fleur de pommier and Boule rose 

 which both represent crosses, between D. 

 Lemoinei and D. purpurascens. In 1913 

 when I first published in an article on Deutzia 

 (in Moeller's Deutsche Gaertner-Zeitung, 

 XXVIII, 7-9, 15-17, 25-26) an enumeration 

 of the hybrids of the genus I had not yet seen 

 D. myriantha in bloom and I apparently 

 followed a statement made in an article on 



Deutzia published in 1904 by C. Schneider 

 (in Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologi- 

 schen Gesellschaft, XIII, 172-188) where he 

 says that D. purpurascens and D. Lemoinei 

 are the parents of D. myriantha. I un- 

 fortunately overlooked Lemoine's statement 

 in his Catalogue No. 158 which appeared in 

 the same year that D. myriantha was obtained 

 by crossing D. corymbiflora ( = D. setchuenensis 

 var. corymbiflora) and D. parviflora. In 

 writing my article on Deutzia for Bailey's 

 Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture I relied 

 on my earlier article and, though I gave a 

 correct description of Deutzia myriantha 

 based on a plant cultivated at the Arnold 

 Arboretum, failed to revise my previous 

 statement regarding the parentage cf this 

 hybrid. 



To set the matter right I append here short 

 descriptions of the two hybrids confused by 

 me. As the second hybrid has not yet re- 

 ceived a specific Latin name, I propose for it 



the name D. maliflora, "apple-flowered," 

 alluding to its French varietal name "Fleur 

 de pommier." 



Deutzia myriantha Lemoine (D. pariiflora x setchuenensis). 

 Upright shrub with slender branches and with ovate to oblong- 

 lanceolate finely toothed leaves 2-3 inch long, rough on both 

 sides from minute stellate hairs, those of the upper side usually 

 with four rays, of the under side with mostly 5-6 rays. The 

 pure white flowers appear about the middle of June in loose 

 and rather flat clusters 2-3 inch across; the individual flowers 

 measure about \ of an inch in diameter; the green calyx- 

 lobes are broadly ovate or triangular and pointed and shorter 

 or scarcely as long as the calyx-tube. The stamens are about 

 half as long as the petals; their filaments are winged and those 

 of the outer row of stamen divide at the apex into two spreading 

 teeth about as long as the anthers, while those of the inner row 

 usually extend undivided above the insertion of the anther. 



D. maliflora Rehder (D. Lemoinei x purpurascens). Upright 

 much-branched shrub with ovate to oblong-ovate, finely 

 toothed leaves 1 \- 2 inches long, with less numerous and less 

 conspicuous stellate hairs and less rough on both sides, the 

 hairs of the upper side with usually 4-5 rays, those of the lower 

 side with mostly 6-8 rays. The rosy pink flowers appear 

 end of May in numerous rather dense and short panicles 

 about 1^-2 inches across and about as high; the individual 

 flowers and the stamens are similar to those of D. myriantha 

 in shape and size, but the calyx-lobes are purple, lanceolate 

 or oblong-lanceolate and much longer than the calyx-tube. The 

 stamens are similar to those of the preceding plant. 



To this hybrid belongs " Fleur de Pommier" which represents 

 the typical form of it, and " Boule rose." 



