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high, has now been fully demonstrated; and it is alike palpable that 

 plants so managed constitute some of the most beautiful objects which 

 can engage the cultivator's notice. The trellises most common were 

 those with flat surfaces, exhibiting an oval or irregular contour, some 

 expanding at the bottom so as to cover the pot, and such as resemble 

 a barrel, or are simply cylindrical in figure. Two or three were com- 

 pletely globular, except on the lower side, and some were of a 

 common cylindrical form, but low, and covered at the top, with the 

 plants trained over them so closely, and branching out from their sur- 

 face so naturally, as to give them the aspect rather of dwarf bushes 

 than of trellis-supported climbers. The most noticeable feature in 

 their culture was the training of the shoots so closely together as al- 

 most to hide the trellis, and to display as continuous a sheet as possi- 

 ble of foliage and flowers on the exterior. It was observable that 

 where this had been most carefully effected, by far the most splendid 

 results were realized, and certainly nothing could be more demon- 

 strative of the good effects of any treatment than were some of the 

 climbers of that we have just referred to. Probably the best plan, 

 where immediate display is not wished for, is to train the plants thin- 

 ly to the top of a suitable trellis, take the principal shoots again to the 

 bottom, and re-direct them upwards, between the older portions. 

 The first wood is thus better matured, and though two or three years 

 will elapse without any striking result being obtained, the ultimate ef- 

 fect will be all that could be desired. In all cases, however, a high 

 trellis must be guarded against, as it is not a tall specimen, with the 

 flowers principally at the top, that is most beautiful — but one over 

 which the leaves and blossoms are pretty regularly and generally dis- 

 tributed. These hints were suggested, and will be borne out, by the 

 climbers exhibited. The specimen which struck us as being most as- 

 tonishing was one of Zichya glabrata, from Mr. Clarke, gr. to G. 

 Smith, Esq., of Shirley Park. It was about three feet high, the same 

 breadth, on a flat trellis, and had a cluster of flowers to almost every 

 Bcjuare inch of surface. The bunches of blossom, from standing out 

 on long flower-stalks, had their beauty greatly increased. A plant of 

 Kennedya monophylla, four feet in height, proportionally broad, on a 

 similar trellis to the last, and so densely covering it that it could not 

 be seen through, was sent by the same person, and by the profusion 

 of its large deep green leaves and blue flowers, made a very admira- 

 ble display. iNIr. Clarke further exhibited Philibertia grandiflora, in 

 a good flowering condition; Tweedia ccerulea, affixed to the front of 

 u flat trellis, and producing a lively effect; a species of Maurandya, 

 probably pulchella, with light lilac flowers, and forming an interest- 

 ing and close pyramid four feet high; Kennedya nigricans, on a round 

 trellis, with its noble foliage, and curious blackish and yellow flow- 

 ers; Kennedya longiracemosa, four feet high, on a circular flat trel- 

 lis, remarkably good; and Solly a heterophylla, with its pretty droop- 

 ing blue blossoms. A Zichya coccinea, four feet high, from J. Allnut, 

 Esq., of Clapham, was a magnificent specimen; and Mr. Wilson, gr. 

 to J. Labouchere, of Bcdtord Hill, Streatham, produced the same 

 sjjccies, six feet high, with a prodigious quantity of flowers; it was 

 supported on a fancy trellis, the figure being contracted towards the 

 top. Mr. Redding, gr. to Mrs. Marryatt, of Wimbledon, brought a 



