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FLORA AND SVLVA 
Hybrids of D. Corymbiflora. — A number 
of seedlings raised between D. corymbiflora 
and Z). discolor purpurascens are still on trial, 
and promise good results. Though it is still 
too early to speak of them with certainty, 
M. Lemoine tells us that some of these plants 
were objects of great beauty during the past 
summer. 
D. corymbosa. — A plant from the mountains 
of Nepaul, and not yet grown in Europe. Its 
leading features seem to connect it with D. 
parvijiora^ the flowers being of fair size and 
composed of smooth and rounded petals. 
This plant is the D. corymbosa of Brown, and 
should not be confused with the corymbosa of 
Lindley here referred to as Z). staminea or 
the corymbosa of gardens here treated as D. 
corymbiflora. 
D. crenata. — A plant of many named forms, 
of which few are really distinct. A common 
shrub in gardens, it quickly forms dense tufts 
of 6 or more feet in height, with rough stems 
of the thickness of a pencil. The leaves are 
pointedly-oval, rounded at the base, with very 
short stalks, hard, rough, and crisped in tex- 
ture, hairy on both sides, dark green above 
and paler beneath. The flowers appear in June, 
hanging from the leaf-axils in a multitude of 
erect thyrses ; each flower is composed of five 
pointed petals, more or less turned back at the 
edges. Introduced by Siebold from Japan, 
where it grows freely in the hedges of sandy 
places. This plant is quite hardy at the root, 
though occasionally cut to the ground in severe 
winters with loss of one year's beauty. 
Varieties. — Among the many forms of 
this plant are : — crenata fore putiiceo, with white 
flowers shaded on the outside with rosy-purple ; 
and crenata fore ple?io, brought from Japan by 
Fortune about 1866, and distinct in its very 
double flowers, prettily tinted with rose upon 
the outer petals. D. crenata fore albo ple?w is 
a seedling raised in Van Houtte's nursery in 
1 868, differing from the last in its snow-white 
flowers : simultaneously the same plant ap- 
peared as D. crenata candidissima plena^ raised 
by Froebel of Zurich. The plant known as 
D. crenata Pride of Rochester, raised fifteen years 
later in America, is really a repetition of this 
earlier double form, already twice-named ; nor 
is this surprising, seeing that seeds of D. cren- 
ata give rise to a variety of forms. Several 
variegated kinds are also grown, such as foliis 
albopunctatis, with leaves speckled with white; 
2indL foliis variegatis, in which they are streaked 
with yellow. Forms may also be met with 
which are mere repetitions (under another 
name) of those already described. Thus D. 
crenata scabra — the common D. scabra of 
gardens — is not in any way distinct from 
crenata, and the same remark applies to £). 
crenata Sieboldi, often called simply, Deutzia 
Sieboldi. More distinct is crenata Fortunei 
(otherwise known as D. Fortunei), a plant of 
Japanese origin, with handsome and showy 
clusters in which the flowers are much ex- 
panded ; it forms large tufts, free from the 
stiffriess of crenata, and of charming eff^ect when 
full of flower during June. Two other seed- 
lings, sent out about 1887 by an English firm 
under the names of D. Watereri — with white 
single flowers, flushed with rosy-lilac on the 
outside ; and D. Wellsi — with double white 
flowers — claimed to be crosses between Deut- 
zias crenata 2.ndi gracilis. In regard to this sup- 
posed origin M. Lemoine says : — " We have 
frequently tried to cross D. crenata with other 
species of the genus, but without the least 
success ; even the most carefully guarded seed 
produces nothing but forms of crenata. This 
plant is so common in gardens that, even when 
the hybridised flowers are sealed in gauze 
coverings, it is well-nigh impossible to com- 
pletely shut out the pollen brought by wind, 
by bees, and by ants. Our own complete and 
frequent failure made us more than a little 
sceptical with regard to these supposed hybrids, 
and an examination of their flowers shows no 
trace whatever of hybrid origin." A more 
recent form is crenata macropetala (or macro- 
sepala) which appeared only a few years ago, 
with flowers very large and long, pure white, 
and thickly massed in the clusters. 
D. discolor. — Though a form of this plant 
has been in cultivation since 1891, the true 
D. discolor has only recently been introduced 
from China, the first Hving plants having been 
sent to France, where they flowered in the 
collection of M. de Vilmorin. Since then plants 
have reached Messrs. Veitch from theirChinese 
collector, and these bloomed last summer at 
Coombe Wood. Deutzia discolor is a charm- 
