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THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
soineliines Hushed with rose, whieh will uol open for 
two or three weeks. This is the Deutzia of old gardens 
nortli and south. The variety crenala has hrowii 
l)raiiehes and less rough leaves, and although less eoin- 
inoii in gardens aj)])ears to he eijually hardy. The var¬ 
iety Watereri has flowers tinged with j'ed on the outer 
surface of the ])etals. Variety plena has donhle flowers 
with petals tinged w ith rose color. The variety Pride of 
Rochester has large llowers tinged with rose and is one 
of the handsomest of this group. The var. candidissinia 
{D. ]]ddIsU of some gardens and the D. alba plena of 
others) has i)nre white double flowers. 
Deutzia reflexa and D. globosa are natives of western 
China and did not suffer last wilder. They are now 
covered with llow^er-huds. hut it is too soon to speak w ith 
certainty of their value in this climate. 
Deutzia longifolia is a tall shrub w ith erect branches, 
lance-shajied leaves, and clusters of large flowers. This 
native of western China is probably one of th(‘ handsom¬ 
est of the Chinese species, hut, although it is not killed 
here by cold, the hranches are always badly injured and 
the llower-lmds are also injured. 
Deutzia grandiflora is one of the most distinct species 
of the genus and the first to bloom. The flowers open 
with the unfolding of the leaves, and are in from one- to 
three-flow^ered clusters with white petals three-quarters 
of an inch long. This plant, which is exceedingly rare 
in cultivation, is a native of northern China and can he 
seen w ith the other Chinese shruhs on Bussey Dill. 
Deutzia hypoglauga is a distinct and hardy luwv 
sjiecies from northern China and is a tall shrub w ith 
erect stems and clusters of w hite How ers, w Inch promises 
to he a good garden jilant in this climate. 
Deutzia Vilmorinae from central China is hardy in 
sheltered positions and is also a tall shrub with grace¬ 
fully spreading stems, loose clusters of w bite How ers and 
lanee-shaped, pointed leaves covered w ith stellate clus¬ 
ters of hairs. By crossing this species with D. scahra 
a hardy and handsome hybrid has been obtained to w hich 
the name D. magnifica has been given. 
Deutzia discolor is another fairly hardy species from 
central China with hemisiiherical clusters of wdiite 
Howers which are three-quarters of an inch in diameter. 
The variety major of this species has rather larger 
How ers and is a larger and aiiparently a more vigorous 
plant. D ean be seen with other Chinese species on the 
southern slope of Bussey Dill. 
Deutzia kalmiaeflora. Deulzia ])urpa7'as(‘ens is not 
hardy hut by crossing it w ith D. par'viflora a hardy or 
nearly hardy jilant has been obtained to which the name 
of D. kalmiaeflora has been given. This hybrid has 
carmine-colored Howers about thi-ee-quarters of an inch 
in diameter, in small eompact clusters. When it does 
well this is one of the handsomest of the hybrid Deutzias. 
Deutzia Sieboldiana is a dw arf Japanese species w ith 
small white Howers and much less valuable as a garden 
plant than many of the other species. A hybrid {!). 
candelabrum) obtained by crossing it with I), gracdis is 
a handsome plant with gracefully drooping hranches 
which are covered with elongated clusters of while 
Howers. 
Trials of a Kansas Nurseryman 
Thai I fie life of a Kansas Nurseryman is nol all I hat 
it is sometimes cracked up to be, is clearly demonslraled 
by the fotlowiny tetter recentty received by the National 
Nurseryman from “Bert" Taylor, just prior to the Phila¬ 
delphia Convention, at which time he feared he would 
be unable to leave home on account of the late season. 
Dear Sir:— 
I very much fear that I w ill he unable to attend I he 
Convention this year, as we are somewhat behind wilh 
our cultivating and 1 find that if we ever gel eauglit up 
with the work after having nothing hut rain and cold 
weather all spring I he only thing for the writer to do is 
to get out and hustle some himself. We certainly have 
had a very strenuous time this spring. When the rains 
tinally let up so we could get into the field it was almost 
impossible to hire extra teams as all the farmers were in 
the same fix that we w ere. 
Just as the ground got into shape to work after two 
or three weeks of rain we were unfortunate enough to 
have our barn here, at Topeka, with all its contents de¬ 
stroyed by fire. We lost every horse we had at this 
place and it look us another week to get equi])ped for 
business again. 
The writer got it in his head that it was up to him to 
help to keep the nation from starving this year and there¬ 
fore ])lanted some two hundred acres more corn than 
usual and several hundred bushels of iiolatoes. 
The folks are getting used to seeing eultivators, w agons 
and such like hitched on behind the “Cadillac” traveling 
down the country road at the rate of forty miles an hour. 
By the way, the last lime I saw^ you 1 think you were 
driving a “Cadillac” yourself, and I am wondering 
whether you have found out w hat a handy machine it is 
for hauling loads of trees, men, etc. Last fall we were 
short of men at Silver Lake and 1 ])ul a trailer on behind 
the Cadillac and had some fifteen or twenty men at Silver 
Lake by 7 o'clock in the morning, then unhitched the 
trailer and hitched on to the loads of trees and pulled 
them to the station a mile and a half distant. In fact 
I loaded many cars of trees sinqily by pulling loads be¬ 
hind the “Cadillac.” We w ere short on teams and some¬ 
thing had to be done. I remember pulling one load of 
a])])le seedlings weighing nine thousand jxmnds and this 
from the end of the wagon tongue. You can rest as¬ 
sured that there was not much exposure of the slock 
from the time it left the field until w e got to the car. We 
would make the trip to the car in ten minutes or less and 
make it hack in five. It is a little hard to stop as soon as 
you want to, especially wdien the wagon load of trees 
upsets. I usually kee{) a man on the load to give the 
danger signal when there is any danger of upsetting. 
One day when we were a little late in linishing loading a 
car and wxu’c hitting iij) a little livelier trij) than usual 
w ith the last load of trees the w riter did not get the 
danger signal to slow down and when he finally did do 
so the load of trees was upset, all the standards broken 
off the w agon, the wagon turned over w ith the trees and 
some distance down the road. When we got back to the 
