DEUTZIA GRACILIS. 



These grooves in the tree were made perfectly smooth, and the bark above and 

 below the girdle injured as little as possible. 



I then took a straight, thrifty shoot of the tree, split it through the centre, and 

 shaved off each edge, so as to make it exactly fit the groove when of the right 

 length, and fitted one into each of the grooves, using care to have the outer sur- 

 face of the wood on the tree, and that on the piece inserted, to exactly match. 



I now made a plaster of equal parts of cow manure and soil, spread it on the 

 cloth, and then bound it round the tree with the cord ; and, after banking the 

 earth well up against it, left the rest to nature. 



The result was a partial crop of fruit on the tree the same season, and a com- 

 plete circulation of bark over the wounded part the year following. Other trees 

 than the peach may be treated in the same way, and, when the job is nicely done, 

 the sap will flow through the medium artificially supplied, until sufficient new 

 organizable matter is pushed out from the sides to completely cover the wound. 



DEUTZIA GRACILIS. 



BY EDWARD DEEKER, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK. 



This floricultural gem is worthy a place in every collection, large or small, 

 throughout the length and breadth of the land, as few plants can boast of the 

 grace and beauty of this, which must ere long become a great favorite with the 

 fair sex, both on account of its own merit and their nice discrimination of the 

 good and beautiful. 



The plant is of the easiest possible culture; a mixture of leaf mould and good 

 loam with a little sand will be found to suit this elegant little bijou ; its increase 

 is easy, either by layers or by cuttings of the half ripened wood under a hand 

 glass, with a slight bottom heat to hasten their rooting. As soon as rooted, pot 

 them off singly into ^ pint pots and place them in a shady part of the green- 

 house till they begin to grow, then place them in a cold frame to harden off, and 

 as soon as they have filled the pots with roots, turn them out into a well selected 

 piece of ground fully exposed to the sun, and by the fall they will have made 

 nice little plants that will bloom the following spring. Take them up and repot 

 according to the size and strength of the plants ; they can then be stowed away 

 under the green-house stage, and treated precisely the same as Fuchsias; as 

 soon as the weather permits, again turn them into the open ground, and by the 

 end of the second summer's growth they will be respectable sized plants that will 

 be covered with their snow-white flowers through the winter and spring months, 

 by placing a few plants at a time into the early vinery forcing-house or even 

 the warmed part of the green-house. 



They may also be obtained early by those possessing no other glass than that 

 of their dwelling-house windows, by placing them in a south window of a warm 

 room, and giving air on every favorable occasion, that is, when the thermometer 



