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THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GDIDE. 
remaining in the border must be cut down as in the previous year, 
then fork in neatly a good quantity of manure and a little leaf soil 
to promote vigorous growth, and by the next autumn they ought to 
have made shoots two feet in length. Deutzias, under ordinary culti- 
vation, produce their flowers upon the previous year’s wood. This 
leads many to suppose that their course of treatment is the correct 
one, but this is a mistake, for, immediately the plant has done 
flowering, all the old or last year’s wood should be cut out ; and 
while the operator is doing this he will observe a number of young 
shoots springing up from the bottom ; these should be left, and by 
taking away the old W'ood these young ones receive all the strength 
of the roots. 
Those who wish to grow them on in pots should cut them down 
one week previous to potting, when a great part of the old soil should 
be shaken away from the roots, and pots a size larger be used for 
the shift. A mixture of good turfy loam and well- decomposed stable 
dung is a suitable soil for them, and they must always be potted 
firm. The most important object being to encourage a strong 
growth, if too many young shoots should spring up from the bottom, 
they should be thinned out ; for a 24-sized pot, not more than seven 
should be left. They must have every chance of making a quick 
growth, which they will do better if they can be shaded from very 
bright sunshine up to the end of September. The shade of a south- 
west wall suits them admirably. After this they should be fully 
exposed till they have had 5 ° or 6° of frost. This exposure will 
ripen the young wood, and the frost will arrest vegetation ; and if 
after this they are kept pretty dry at the root, they will be fit for 
forcing by the first week in December, if they are wanted thus 
early. 
The system of pot culture is a troublesome and needless aflTair, 
and I cannot understand why we should go through all this routine 
of potting and watering, when there are other means more simple 
and more satisfactory. The above plan of cutting down has not been 
practised by many, but I am confident those who once adopt it 
will never return to the old method, for not only has the plant a 
more healthy and luxuriant appearance, but the individual flowers 
are much larger, and plants so grown have altogether a much more 
prepossessing appearance as compared with those that are flowering 
upon old wood. 
The plan which can be highly recommended for all ordinary 
circumstances is the following : As soon as the plants have done 
flowering, cut out the old w'ood, and in a few days after turn out the 
plants in some rich piece of ground in the kitchen garden. I am in 
this case presuming the plants have flowered naturally, so that the 
planting out will not take place till all danger of frost is past, which 
might check the young wood which they always make when they are 
flowered under glass. The plants will want water in dry weather, 
until they have obtained a firm hold of the ground, which will be 
about the end of June. The remarks which I have made above 
about potting and syringing will be applicable in this case if they 
are wanted to flower early ; if otherwise, pot them and place in a 
