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little shrub of 2 to 3 feet, and almost a 
counterpart of the last save in the size, shape, 
and arrangement of its flowers. These are so 
numerous as to almost hide the foliage, their 
profusion and its good habit of growth, making 
it useful for forcing. The flowers open towards 
the end of May, and are of blush-pink with 
yellow stamens, the red flush deepening at the 
edges, and on the outside of the petals. 
D. myriantha. — Another of the Lemoine 
crosses, coming from D. corymbijiora crossed 
with D. parvijiora. It is a charming little 
shrub of slender growth, with brown, erect 
stems covered with long, narrow leaves of dark 
green, with a roughly hairy surface. The 
massive, much-branched clusters open early 
in June, with flowers ^ of an inch wide and 
of snowy whiteness, save for the pale yellow 
stamens. The charm of the plant is enhanced 
by its following earlier kinds, while coming 
into beauty from a week to a fortnight before 
its parent D. corymbijiora and so much hardier 
as to remain uninjured when that plant has 
been frozen to the ground at its side. 
D. parvijiora. — A handsome shrub of 4 to 
5 feet, its erect stems crowned in spring by 
heavy white clusters like those of the Haw- 
thorn, or certain Spireas. It is a very distinct 
plant, in which the bark peels away from the 
woody stems in bands. Though seemingly 
smooth and bare at first sight, the young stems 
are hairy under the magnifying glass. The 
leafstalks, which are fairly long and grooved 
upon the upper surface, carry leaves of 2 to 
4 inches, pointedly-oval and deeply and irregu- 
larly toothed, the teeth being tipped with 
brown ; the dark green of the upper surface 
is paler underneath, and the texture dry and 
rough, with prominentveins, andafew minute 
hairs. The flower-heads are borne at the tips 
of the shoots, in April and May. Though 
perfectly hardy, the buds appear so early as 
sometimes to suffer from frost. The flowers 
are white, nearly half-an-inch across, and hairy 
upon the outside of the petals, while the calyx 
is also frequently covered with thi ck, grey hairs. 
This shrub, from the mountains of North 
China and the region of the Amour, is the first 
of all the Deutzias to flower. It reached 
Europe by way of St. Petersburg, whence it 
passed to the Arnold Arboretum of the United 
States, and was made known to western Europe 
by Prof. Sargent, who sent seeds to many other 
collections. The plant was first sent out as 
a garden shrub by Messrs. Lemoine of Nancy 
in 189 1 , their stock coming from a single branch 
received the previous winter, and hence with- 
out variation ; a form has however been noticed 
amongst the seedlings grown at the Museum, 
Paris, which appears to be distinct and has 
been named the " Museum variety " — D. 
parvijiora varietas Musai. It differs in its more 
abundant leaves, which are flatter, longer, and 
more pointed ; its flower-clusters also bear 
fewer flowers which are set more closely to- 
Deutzia Parviflora. 
I gether, and of a creamy-white colour. So far 
I as we are aware, this form is not to be found 
elsewhere. 
With the spread of D. parvijiora in Europe, 
it figured among the new plants of several 
German nurseries, but on comparing these 
German plants with their own, Messrs. Le- 
moine found them perfectly distinct from their 
form of D. parvijiora, and nearer D. Lemoinei 
— their cross between gracilis and parvijiora. 
This view has since been confirmed by Dr. 
Dippel, director of the botanical garden at 
Darmstadt, who states that the plant known 
in Germany as D. parvijiora., and raised from 
