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hardy, and they will be clear of all disease, and produce abundance 

 of bloom. "We usually plant the length of fifteen or eighteen lights, 

 and others are planted in warm corners in the open air. The cheap 

 turf-pits are exceedingly useful at all seasons ; when the violets are 

 taken out, we use the pits for early carrots, late cucumbers, etc., etc. 



CULTUEE OP DEUTZIA. GEACILTS. 



BY MR, CLAEKE, GAEDENEK AT SIDNEY LODGE, WIMBLEDON. 



propagate this plant successfully, cuttings should be 

 taken as early in the spring as they can be got ; we 

 will say March. If placed in silver-sand, and put in a 

 sweet bottom-heat, they will strike as readily as ver- 

 benas, although not quite so quickly. It mually takes 

 them a month to get well rooted. They must then be potted in 60- 

 sized pots, in moderately light sandy soil ; after this they should 

 receive the benefit of bottom-heat for a fortnight. A warm green- 

 house will then suit them till they have filled the pots full of roots, 

 which will be about the middle of June; after this expose them 

 gradually out of doors for a week. 



My plan of proceeding for the after-management is as follows : 

 A piece of ground under a south-west wall is well manured and 

 carefully forked in ; here the plants are turned out of the pots a 

 foot apart each way, and during summer they are weeded and 

 watered when necessary. The following March I cut the plants 

 down to within an inch of the ground ; the vacant spaces are then 

 lightly forked up, and about a couple of inches of good rotten dung 

 laid between the plants, which will act as a mulching through the 

 summer. In this position they will make a good growth much more 

 so than by any system of pot-culture that can be adopted ; and every 

 one must admit with infinitely less trouble. If it is desirable to 

 flower some of them the next season, every alternate plant must be 

 potted early in October, and receive the protection of a pit or frame 

 to encourage them to make fresh roots before winter sets in. Every 

 alternate plant must be left in the ground. Those potted for 

 flowering must be encouraged to make roots by being syringed and 

 shut up early in the afternoon of bright days. Hardy as they are, 

 those for forcing ought not to be exposed to more than three or four 

 degrees of frost, just to harden the wood, and send them to rest 

 early. The plants now remaining in the border must go through 

 the same ordeal of cutting down as they did the previous year, but 

 fork in neatly a good quantity of manure and a little leaf-soil ; this 

 will encourage a strong growth, and by the next autumn they ought 

 to have made shoots two lectin length. To make the above remarks 

 more intelligible, I had better add here that this plant, under ordi- 

 nary cultivation, requires exactly the same treatment as the rasp- 

 berry, which it is well known produces its fruit upon the wood of 



