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DECIDUOUS SHRUBS. 
THE DEUTZIA. Deutzia. 
Another species of beautiful flowering shrubs for which we are 
indebted to Japan. It belongs to the same family as the common 
syringa, is similar in growth and foliage, but its style of bloom is 
more graceful. The different varieties are among the most charm¬ 
ing late acquisitions to shrubberies, and already take rank with 
lilacs, honeysuckles, and weigelas. The leaves are simple, serrated, 
and opposite, about the size of syringa leaves, of coarse surface, 
and without gloss ; they appear later than those of the lilac, or 
about with the Weigela rosea, which the deutzias also resemble in 
growth, though a little less spreading. The flowers, in most varie¬ 
ties, pure white, appear in June, in pendulous little panicles or 
racemes from two to four inches in length. Either on or off the 
bush they are very graceful. 
The Rough-leaved Deutzia, D. scabra, is the variety most 
largely disseminated, and the coarsest and most robust grower. It 
becomes a spreading bush from eight to twelve feet in height and 
breadth. 
The Crenate-leaved Deutzia, D. crenata , differs principally 
from the foregoing in having a less rank and more graceful habit. 
The Double White-flowering Crenate Deutzia, D. crenata 
jloreplena, differs in having double flowers in greater abundance. 
The Pink-flowering Double Deutzia, D. rubra flore plena, 
is similar to the preceding in habit of growth, and the most beauti¬ 
ful of all in bloom. This, and the double-white, are the finest large 
sorts, and should be planted near together, where the colors will be 
contrasted during their profuse blossoming. 
The Graceful Deutzia. D. gracilis. —This is the smallest 
variety and the greatest favorite. It is equally at home in the 
green-house or in open ground, as it is readily forced into winter 
bloom. Its flowers are white, in slender little racemes, in June. 
On the bush, in bouquets, or wreathed with other flowers, the blos¬ 
soms of the Deutzia gracilis are equally graceful. We remember no 
church decoration so charming as the wreathing and bordering of 
the pulpit and altar of a chapel in Brookline, Mass., decorated 
