Splendid for Spring and Early Summer Flowering – Beautiful Deciduous Shrub
( Deut’zia ) . A chemical group of leaf - lose bush that are beautiful in bloom but are otherwise insignificant . The flowers are produced from the side bud of the former year ’s emergence . Many kinds are hump , chiefly natives of China , Japan and the Himalayas . The bulk are not perfectly hardy in the North against winter cold and should be give sheltered positions even in the climate of New York City and its surround . The Deutzias are close related to theMock Orange , or Philadelphus ; they belong to the Saxifrage family , Saxifragaceae . The name Deutzia was given in honor of John van der Deutz , a patron of flora and at one time Sheriff of Amsterdam .
Propagation and Cultivation
All the Deutzias can be increase without trouble by means of cuttings , 3 - 4 in . long , of flaccid shoots , in May or other June , or of unfaltering wood in July ; the cuttings are dibbled in a bed of Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin or arenaceous peat and are range in a propagating case in frame or greenhouse . Young plant should be set in undecomposed soil in a nursery border , the ends being pinched out of the shoots to rush a bushy riding habit of growth . When two years previous , they should be bombastic enough for embed in lasting places . The best outcome can only be ask by providing full loamy dirt that is not too wry .
To obtain plant that will flower freely , they must be encouraged to form well - mature wood each twelvemonth . help is turn over by removing some of the older wood as shortly as the flush are over ; the old shoots should be cut back to those points from which vigorous young shoot are grow . assistance may also be given by crop the soil above the roots with well - rotted farmyard manure or an casual app of a complete fertiliser .
A gay position is worthy so that the shoots will be thoroughly ripened or maturate . Deutzias may be set in soil curb calcium oxide and in somewhat acid grunge . The smaller - growing kinds are splendid for beds , and the enceinte ones are useful for groups or quarantined specimen .
For the Greenhouse
As forcing works for greenhouse ornament in springiness some of the dwarf variety are excellent , particularly the white - blossom D. gracilis . It is saucy to grow plants , specially for this use and to start forcing them when they are two years old . They should be planted out of door as soon as they show deterioration .
White and Colored Flowers
In increase to the many wild kinds introduced from China and elsewhere , a telephone number of very beautiful sort have been bring up by hybridizing and some of these assortment are popular in garden . Most have been raised by intercrossing kinds with bloodless flowers with others behave violet flowers . The following are very beautiful :
Good Flowering Shrubs
Among the species from China , Japan and the Himalayas , of which there are at least thirty , the following are just shrubs , although not all may be in polish :
Deutzias gracilis , 3 - 4 ft . , white , one of the oldest and well - sleep together kinds ;
Deutzias corymbosa , 9 ft . , white ;
Deutziaslongifolia , 5 - 6 foot . , flushed purple , and var . Veitchii , grow ;
Deutzias hypoglauca , 3 - 4 1/2 ft . , white ;
Deutzias mollis , 5 - 6 foot . , white ;
Deutzias parviflora , 5 - 6 foot . , whitened ;
Deutzias purpurascens , 5 - 6 ft . , purple ;
Deutzias hypoleuca , 5 - 6 ft . , white ;
Deutzias reflexa , 3 - 4 foot . , white ;
Deutzias scabra ( crenata ) , 8 - 10 ft . , clean , tinged purple , the diversity flore pleno has double flower ;
Deutzias setchuenensis , 5 - 6 ft . , white , is a very beautiful shrub , but one of the most affectionate ;
Deutzias Sieboldiana , 4 - 5 ft . , has blanched flowers . The flowering time for these shrubs is from recent May to early July .
