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bear the knife well, and may be cut quite back occa- 

 sionally. D. Inclica may be pruned moderately. It 

 should be done immediately after flowering. 



The Deutzia. 



The D. Gracilis is well known, but the genus as a 

 tribe is but little grown, although many of them are 

 equally as handsome as Gracilis. This, however, 

 happens to be a free-flowering dwarf shrub, useful for 

 pots as an early forced flower ; and a handsome variety 

 it is, if pure white can be called handsome. D. 

 Corymbosa is also a beautiful flowering variety, and it 

 makes a most delightful standard lawn tree of three or 

 four feet high when tied to a stake or iron rod. Nor 

 can few flowering shrubs well compare with a nicely 

 grown plant of this kind on a neat lawn when in full 

 flower in the spring. 



Good ground, consisting of a little peat and decayed 

 manure mixed with the ordinary garden soil, and well 

 prepared before planting, should be given these plants. 

 Every season a good top-dressing of rotten manure 

 should also be given these standard Deutzia s, together 

 with one soaking of liquid manure immediately after 

 flowering, to induce a fair growth of young wood, on 

 which will come the best flowers. 



Pruning is likewise absolutely necessary with the 

 Deutzias. These two principles must be maintained in 

 growing them, viz. a free growth annually, and 

 pruning out the old wood to be substituted by the new. 

 This applies to the potted plants as well as the outdoor 

 shrubs. 



The Genista. 



The Spanish Brooms are Genistas, but I now refer 

 more particularly to the greenhouse varieties and to a 

 dwarf section of this tribe. G. Canariensis is one of 

 the best, if not the best, of the greenhouse varieties. 

 This plant forms a most gorgeous pot plant when in 

 flower in the early spring. It is one of those free- 



