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or colours of the blossoms. It occurred to me in the spring of 1835, 

 that some other method might he devised to answer every purpose of 

 the plants, and bring the blossoms close to view. [ therefore had 

 some wire frames constructed at various heights and diameters, some 

 six feet high, others five and four, and of such a diameter as that 

 the bottom of the frame fitted to the size of the pot in which the 

 plant was growing. I had a (e\v made with four upright strong wires, 

 but they did not look at all so neat as those I had with six. The top 

 of the wire frame is made to splay, so that it is rather funnel shaped. 

 The coating wire is commenced at the bottom and is continued, at 

 two inches apart, to the lop. I had a few girths of wire quite round 

 the whole in order to bind them firmly and steadily, whilst the coiled 

 wire was to train to. 



This plan brings the plants within desirable bounds lor training 

 and regulating, which attention, on the old system, is often found 

 difficult to perform, and then neglect ensuing, disorder is the un- 

 sightly result. But in my mode of treatment, it is easily and neatly 

 performed, and affords a very pleasing duly to secure the leading 

 shoots to the desired positions. The result is, the collecting into the 

 small compass of a bush, and thus quite near to view, in many in- 

 stances of hundreds of blossoms. I beg to assure the traders of the 

 Cabinet, that those persons who may adopt the same plan will not 

 fail of being highly pleased with it. 



The kinds of plants I have used this mode of training to," are the 

 following, but it is properly applicable to all climbers, either exotic 

 or hardy. 



Tropoeoluui tricolorum. azoricum. 



— pentaphyllum. Passiflora cjerulea. 



Hibbcrtia creuata. racemosa. 



Kennedia cocciuea. . floribunda. 



Comptoniana. laurifolia. 



mouophylla. Rhodochiton volubile. 



ovata. Lophospermum scandens. 



sericea. Eccremocarpus scaber. 



dilitata. Maurandia Barclayana, 



Cobaea scandens. semperflorens. 



Dolichos liguosus. Convolvulus major. 



Convolvulus panniculitis. Ipomea striata. 



canadensis. coccinea. 



Lonicera japonica. punctata. 



flexuosa. New Crimson. 



Jasminium grandiflorum. Nasturtium. 



rcvolutum. 



All of the above did remarkably well, and I think it would answer 

 equally as well for many ol the finest hothouse climbers. 

 JvneSrd, 1886. 



