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If, in addition to the climbers supported by a trellis, it be tlioiigbt desirable to have 
a few still attached to the rafters of the house, in the ordinary way, the reader will 
perceive the necessity of departing, in some measure, from the plan commonly pursued 
in regard to the places in which they are planted. Let the tubs assigned to them 
be on a level with the other pots in the house, or sufficiently elevated to catch the 
partial influence of the sun, and the passing currents of air ; and a condition of vital 
consequence will have been gained. In training them, however, a great error is 
mostly committed, by keeping all parts of them too close to the roof, and curtailing, 
or placing in the direction of the leading stems, the largest of the lateral branches. 
This may be, to a certain extent, judicious in a greenhouse, where nothing should 
interfere with the transmission of light, but for a stove it is utterly unnecessary and 
unwarrantable. Persons who have seen the long and graceful shoots of various 
climbers depending from the rafters of a house for ten or fifteen feet, according to 
its height, laden with their lovely blossoms, and waving gently with the slightest 
agitation of the air, need not be told that their appearance is the most natural, 
appropriate, and enchanting, that could by any means be realized. We hope the 
trim, formal culture of these charming plants, now so general, will be forthwith 
abandoned, and that not a single specimen will soon be met with which is not 
permitted to assume a more flowing, elegant, and agreeable form. 
It must not be supposed by individuals who happen to have no wall against 
which they can cultivate climbing plants, that they are compelled to forego the 
pleasure of growing a few hardy kinds, or even the more exotic species during 
summer. From what has been said concerning^ the low trellises to which the 
greenhouse and stove sorts may be trained, it will be gathered that analogous 
measures are applicable in the open ground to a limited degree. Any rough and 
rustic poles will be the best for this purpose, and one, two, three, or more may be 
employed, as taste or necessity dictates, and either fastened together by small spars, 
or left detached. They can be made of any desired height, and the stems of the 
plants should be curved round them pretty closely together. It is essential that a 
quantity of the smaller external branches be sufi'ered to hang down around the 
sides, or the aspect of the whole will be too constrained and artificial. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEAV AND RARE PLANTS FIGORED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS FOR 
MARCH. 
Anciii)sa petiolAta. An interesting perennial, with handsome blue flowers, 
and leaves of which the petiole is peculiarly long. It was raised in the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden from seeds obtained in Nepal by Colonel Colvin, in the service of 
the Honourable East India Company. Although hitherto treated as a greenhouse 
