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brought forward in a previous Number. As a companion plant to a standard Ivy, 
indeed, a standard Honeysuckle would be an extremely desirable object. They 
are both produced by the same means. Pruning to a single stem, and when this 
has gained the required height, stopping it, and producing a head of branches, is 
all the preparation needful ; and a trifling subsequent pruning will carry the plants 
forward without further trouble. 
To establish a Honeysuckle as a standard, it should have a stake to uphold the 
main stem ; and as it will be advisable to continue this after the head is formed, 
lest a strong current of wind should overset and break it, the stake should be an 
iron one, which will also contribute to neatness. The plant will look best on a 
lawn, that is either flat or sloping, and the branches may, when the head is duly 
formed, be left almost to sweep the grass. If the plant be on a slope, the longest 
branches ought to be left on the lowest side, as this will create a greater elegance 
from the valley below. 
Perhaps the C. Periclymenum serotinum, or the late-flowering variety of the 
Woodbine, is most to be preferred for a standard. There is little choice necessary, 
however, as most of the Caprifoliums would answer the design, and C. sempervirens 
would probably be especially beautiful. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR SEPTEMBER. 
Aca'cia rotundifo'lia. A very pretty new species, introduced " by James Backhouse, Esq., 
from Hunter's River (he believes), New Holland, in 1842 ; and it flowered copiously in the spring 
of the following year, in the greenhouse of the Royal Botanic Gardens. It is a straggling plant, 
but when trained upon a trellis, in a garden-pot, it makes a very elegant appearance, with its 
graceful drooping branches, and copious heads of blossoms, more copious than the leaves. It 
seems quite distinct from any described species : in some respects, indeed, resembling A. undu- 
Icefolia, but very different in the inflorescence and phyllodia." It forms a shrub of three or four 
feet in height, with angled and slightly downy branches, and roundish unequal leaves. The 
flowers are very numerous, in small heads, and of a bright yellow colour. Bot. Mag. 4041. 
Aca x cia specta'bilis. "Among 340 species of Acacia enumerated by Mr. Bentham, this is 
one of the finest ; and it certainly is the very handsomest we have seen from New South Wales, 
beautiful as many of them are. The leaves and branches are covered with the most delicate 
bloom, and the flowers, produced in large masses at the end of the shoots, are of the clearest 
and softest yellow. It is a native of Wellington Valley, and other places on the east coast of 
New Holland, where it was found by the late Mr. Allan Cunningham, and by Mr. Frazer. For 
its introduction to this country we are indebted to H. B Lott, Esq., who presented it to Messrs. 
Lucombe, Pince, and Co., of Exeter, from whom a flowering specimen was received last April. 
It belongs to the same section of the genus as A. discolor and dealbata, but is probably more 
decidedly a greenhouse plant than they are, for it comes from the country to the north of Sidney, 
and therefore inhabits warmer latitudes. From both it is known by its broad, smooth, glaucous 
leaflets, and by the gland found in these species, in connection with the petiole, being replaced by 
a depression." Bot. Beg. 46. 
Erythrochi'ton brasili'ensis. This fine Brazilian plant is stated by Messrs. Nees and 
Martius to form a small tree, at the most ten feet high, with the habit of a Theophrasta, the 
stem being altogether unbranched, and the long leathery leaves collected at its end. From 
