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CALYSTEGIA PUBESCENS. 
partially create the effect they do in a wild state. Much may be done by assisting 
them in this respect ; as, by the avoidance of too artificial a method of support. In 
most cases the direction and securing of the leading shoots is all that is required. 
Sometimes a tender climbing or twining plant may be put to raise itself by clinging 
to another, some robust brother growing against a wall, &c. A little provision made 
to ensure that the weaker individual progressed, but also that it kept within due 
limits, would be the only trifling outlay of exertion wanted to put such a thing in 
train to be very characteristic. 
Calystegia was originated by R. Brown from kalyx calyx, and stega a covering. 
