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though we may rigidly prune and train two plants of the same species, it does not 
necessarily follow they are to be exactly of the same shape. And again, we do not 
expect to obtain the beauties of contrast, by employing several plants or trees of 
one species, but seek it in different species of a genus, and different genera. 
Up to this point we have considered "pruning and training" by itself, as to 
what it is capable of alone. In carrying it out it should always be thus considered : 
what it is able to effect would then be much more likely to be attained. It is 
secondary only to insuring a plant such provisions for its roots, as from its nature 
will cause and encourage it to grow, which of course lays out the foundation of all 
success, and any fineness it may attain; and "pruning and training," is dependent 
upon it, inasmuch as, without something on which to operate, it is not expected to 
prove its nature, much more to produce any result. 
We have said nothing of the principle we have been dealing with, as it relates 
to plants cultivated in pots. It is practised to a much greater extent upon them 
than things of a hardy description, as it is not only better understood, but its effects 
are more palpably evident. It is, however, here, far from experiencing that universal 
application it ought and will, as the better knowledge of plant culture, confined 
within circumscribed limits now, is farther extended. As it is in the hands of every 
culturist, it is practised to some extent, though very seldom to so great a degree, at 
the time, or in the manner it ought. 
In this lengthy paper it is conceded at once we have employed language more 
figurative than we are wont, but offer no apology for having done so, if we are at all 
successful, by so doing, in directing attention to the subject more in its extent. 
FLORICULTURAL NOTICES. 
NEW OR BEAUTIFUL PLANTS FIGURED IN THE LEADING BOTANICAL PERIODICALS 
FOR JUNE. 
An'sellia africa'na. Dr. Lindley wrote of this plant in 1844, as follows : — " While we are 
writing on this subject, we would also mention another most noble plant, specimens of which 
might certainly be procured by any of our African merchants. When Mr. Ansell was ill from 
the effects of the Niger expedition, at Fernando Po, he found in Clarence Coxe, growing on the 
stems of the Oil Palm (Elais guianensis) an epiphyte with a slender-jointed stem about two feet 
long, having at the upper end many stiff, plaited lanceolate, five-ribbed leaves, and a terminal 
panicle of flowers as large as those of Vanda Roxburghii, with dark purple spots on a pale 
ground. Of that plant we possess a dried specimen, with one of the lower branches of the panicle 
in good preservation, and as it proves to be a new genus, we take this opportunity of naming it 
after its discoverer." The Rev. John Clowes, and the Messrs. Loddiges, have received, since the 
above was written, this truly fine Orchid. The latter gentlemen flowered, in the beginning of the 
year, the plant the subject of the present notice. Bot. Reg., 30. 
iEscHiNA'NTHus purpura'scens. JEschinanthus albida, Bignonia, albida, Trichosporum, 
albidum, and Lysionotus albidus are recorded by Sir W. J. Hooker as synonyines of this plant 
( ' It is a species readily distinguished from the rest of the genus by its sinuate-toothed leaves, by 
the dark purple-brown prominent midrib on the under side, by the long, purple, subulate lacinise 
