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be obtained. After the second year, the laterals can be left to perfect themselves, 
when tliey will all flower most vigorously ; and on the fading of the blossoms, 
they can be stopped as before, to prepare a new series of similar flowering shoots 
in the following season. In the last instance, the pruning should be done in 
autumn or winter, and not while the plant is growing. 
But wliere a handsome plant, three, four, or five feet in height, is sought after, 
it must be procured by a different course. A bush, of the usual shrubby nature, 
might probably be gained by a patient continuance of the culture just recom- 
mended ; yet it would require several years of preparation, and very elegant 
plants may be reared sooner by the plan we are about to propound. Instead of 
allowing the early branches to spread outwards in the ordinary way, they should 
be intertwined with each other into a flat surface, three or more feet wide ; still 
conducting the stopping process, as the branches get four or five inches in length, 
(effecting it at two inches while the specimen is but small,) and proceeding to 
interlace these closely, and to remove the points of their superfluous laterals, as 
they are formed, a dense -specimen will be created in two or three years, of the 
required height, and having shoots on both sides in great profusion, as well as at 
the summit. By stopping all these again, once or twice, the specimen will be 
rendered about half as thick as it is wide, and the laterals may then be permitted 
to extend themselves thoroughly, and to flower. The whole will then constitute 
a mass of gracefully waving branches, each studded with one or more racemes of 
flowers ; and this condition may be long maintained by the adoption of the 
practice spoken of in reference to the preservation of the dwarf specimen. 
Three or four stakes of a moderately strong kind, and placed about three inches 
apart from each other across the centre of the pot, parallel with the expansion of 
the branches, will be amply sufficient to support the specimen, and no trellis will 
be needed. The formality which might be thought to result from training, 
originally, to a flat surface, will be completely done away by the laterals that are 
left to grow out on either side. 
By either of the preceding methods, specimens of the most elegant and orna- 
mental kind may be easily prepared ; and the peculiar simplicity of the plan will, 
we are sure, prove a source of recommendation, rather than objection. 
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NEW AND BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR JULY. 
Arundi^ NA de'nsa. " Of the fine Oriental genus Arundina we now possess two species iii 
gardens, this and A. bambusifoUa." The present plant is a native of Sincapore, from whence it 
was sent to Messrs. Loddiges by Mr. Cuming. " It differs from A. bambusifoUa in its leaves 
heing nearly equal, and not gradually diminishing into small sheaths as they approach the 
