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(in conjunction with M. Maurice de Vil- 
morin) has given us several late-flower- 
ing kinds to keep it company during 
June and early summer, thus extending 
the early glories of the shrub-garden. 
For their late flowers, D. Vilmo7'mce^ 
D. myriant/ia^ and D. corymbiflora in 
southern gardens, should And a hearty 
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Deutzia Myriantha. 
Engraven for '■'■Flora "from a Photograph. 
welcome, and the good account given 
by M. Lemoine of his new crosses with 
corymbiflora seems to promise other 
good things for the future. 
Much of the following is translated 
from a monograph of the family com- 
piled by M. Emile Lemoine and oflici- 
ally honoured by the National Horti- 
cultural Society of France. To the 
author we are further indebted for notes 
upon the newer plants — Deiitzias Vil- 
morince^myriant/ia j^tc. — ofwhichlittle 
is yet known in this country. 
Deutzia corymbiflora. — A shrub of 4 to 5 
feet, thickly branched and of graceful habit. 
The young growths of the season are erect, 
rounded, and long in the joint, with bronzy- 
green bark covered with tiny white hairs. The 
leaves, 5 inches or more long, have little stem 
and are pointedly-oval in shape, more or less 
heart-shaped at the base, and edged with short, 
fine teeth ; their texture is rough on both sides, 
the upper surface deep green coated with short 
hairs, the underneath paler, set with star-like 
hairs, especially upon the veins. The mature 
growths of the previous year carry mas- 
sive, much-branched clusters of white 
flowers, with often 50 to 100 buds and 
expanded blooms. They open from the 
latter part of June, while thanks to the 
number of buds the effect is almost as 
brilliant at the end of July as at the out- 
set. It sometimes happens, too, that on 
reaching full size in autumn the young 
growths bear a few small heads of flower, 
without injury to their mature beauty 
in the following summer. Though this 
beautiful shrub is apt to be cut to the 
ground in severe winters, it always grows 
again. It was raised from seeds sentfrom 
W. China to M. Maurice de Vilmorin ; 
these grew so freely as to show bud at the 
end of the first year, and flowered in April 
of 1 896 in a Parisian nursery, beingshown 
before the Yx&WQ\\Societc natiojiak d' Hor- 
ticulture in the following year under the 
name of Z). corymbosa. Syn. D. corymbosa 
of gardens, and D. setchuensisoi Franchet. 
At the outset much difference of opinion 
existed as to the identity of this plant, which 
was variously pronounced to be the D. corym- 
bosa of Brown, and the D. parvijlora of Bunge. 
Without going fully into the facts adduced by 
M. Lemoine in justification of his own name, 
suffice it to say that he concludes that, while 
coming near D. staminea., and in a less degree 
related to D. corymbosa of Brown, this plant 
cannot rightly be classed with either and its 
origin is therefore best recalled by the name 
corymbiflora., as suggesting that under which 
it first appeared. The plant was sent out by 
Messrs. Lemoine and Boucher in 1 897, and a 
form known as corymbiflora erecta has also ap- 
peared, differing from the parent in its slighter 
and more erect habit, its longer, narrower 
leaves, and its smaller heads of flower. 
