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neat appearance of the trees, and the flowering period is likewise prolonged by it. 
In fact the trees should be managed with the same regularity that would be prac- 
tised in the summer management of a peach-tree, always pinching out the buds 
that are not wanted, before they have grown more than an inch or two in length. 
But although they should be left equally over the whole tree, they must not be 
formally trained. On the contrary, they should be allowed to project a short 
distance from the wall, tying them back whenever they exceed a safe or tidy limit, 
At the approach of spring, all the branches will need spur- pruning to keep them 
from straggling far from the wall, and clogging the plant with an accumulation of 
old wood, that serves no other purpose than as a harbour for insects. 
The mode of affording protection in winter is by covering the roots with dry 
fern, and drawing before the branches a tightly stretched curtain of strong canvas, 
which being attached at the top to a temporary projecting coping, and secured to a 
frame at the bottom, encloses an area of warmer air around them. For the most 
part, the curtain may be drawn back for a few hours in the middle of the day ; 
and in mild weather it should not even be closed during the night. Of course, it 
is necessary to have a border sufficiently well drained to prevent the soil from 
becoming overcharged with water. By a similar proceeding, many greenhouse 
plants will acquire a considerable improvement on the character they present when 
grown in a greenhouse ; and the coping, curtains, and every vesfcige of protection , 
may be entirely removed in summer. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
MARCH. 
Angr^cum Di'stichum. This is not a very showy plant, nor yet very new, having been in 
the possession of the Messrs. Locldiges; of Hackney, for twelve or thirteen years, but it is 
nevertheless a plant full of interest, whether we regard the form and arrangement of the foliage, 
or the structure of its minute pellucid blossoms. It consists of a tuft of stems a few inches long, 
occasionally branching, and furnished from the base to the point with closely set, oblong-falcate, 
distichous leaves of a fleshy texture, from the axils of which the blossoms protrude singly. 
Diminutive as these flowers are, they are said to be identical in structure with those of the fine 
A. eburneum of Thouars. Speaking of the genus Angrcecum, Sir William Hooker says, "it is 
peculiar to the Old World, if we except the A. filiforme, a native of Hispaniola, but which will 
prove to belong to a different genus. It was founded by Du Petit Thouars, and the name derived 
from a barbarous word, 6 Angurek,' of the Malays." The present species was imported from 
Sierra Leone by the Messrs. Loddiges, who presented specimens to the Royal Botanic Gardens 
of Kew, where it flowered in October. — Bot. Mag., 4145. 
Ao v tus Graci'llima. A very elegant Swan River species of Aotus, introduced to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew by Mr. James Drummond. " We have also received it," writes the Editor of 
Curtis's Magazine, " from Baron Hugel, imported from the same country, to which it seems 
peculiar. Mr. Preiss and Mr. Drummond have both sent dried specimens. Besides its glabrous 
branches and foliage, it may at once be known from the old A. villosa by the very copious flowers, 
so abundant on the branches as to conceal the leaves of a great portion of the branches : thus its 
beauty will recommend it, to every greenhouse. Only two species were known to Professor De 
