JULT 26, 1913. 
561 
THE GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE. 
deutzia parviflora. 
Before tlie initrodnotion of Deutzia parvi¬ 
flora thirty years ago there were only two 
species of the genus grown to any extent 
in English gardens, those being the well 
known forcing plant D. gracilis and the 
more vigorous D. crenata. With the in- 
introduee^l to the European gardens by 
way of the St. Petersburg Botanic Grar- 
den. From thence it w^as sent to the 
Arnold Ai-'boretum, and a description of 
the plant growing in that establishment 
was given in the “Darden and Forest,” 
1888, p. 365. In appearance the species 
is upright and vigorous, four to five feet 
here, and although perfectly hardy so far 
as winter frost is concerned, are liable to 
injury when the young shoots are tender 
in spring. 
The first hybrid raised between this and 
the old D. graci'is was named I). Lemoinei, 
and^ it was figured and described about 
1895. In point of hardiness it is about 
NEW BORDER CARNATION FIREFLY. 
Flowers rich scarlet. A.M., R.H.S., July 15. Mr. J. Douglas, Great Bookham. 
parviflora, however, th 
followed bxr appearance ^ 
D. ^"<1. with the aid 
raising a was successful 
“■■nanitnta"^®^ which 
Parvifl*^ ^ useful garden plants. 
Cliina^^and®^^ ^ North 
and Amurland, and was origins 
in height, with elliptical or lance-shaped 
leaves, with sharply serrate margins. The 
white, shapely flowers are product in both 
axillary and terminal corymbs towards the 
end of May, but their effectiveness is 
sometimes spoiled by late frosts, for, like 
other shmJbs from regions where a cold 
and rather prolonged winter is experi¬ 
enced, they commence to grow Aoo early 
^ual to the parents, and is intennediate 
in character, the inflorescences being after 
the style of those of D. parviflora. In 
addition to the type, there is a form 
known as D. Lemoinei compacta, which is 
also a very pretty shrub. D. parviflora 
and the hybrids may be grown in loamy 
soil in an outdoor border, or they may 
be used for forcing. W. Dallimore. 
