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oug’k we may rigidly prune and train two plants of the same species, it does not 
j ;cessarily follow they are to be exactly of the same shape. And again, we do not 
j pect to obtain the beauties of contrast, by employing several plants or trees of 
ji , e 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 
iiat it is capable of alone. In carrying it out it should always be thus considered : 
liat it is able to effect would then be much more likely to be attained. It is 
solidary only to insuring a plant such provisions for its roots, as from its nature 
ill cause and encourage it to grow, which of course lays out the foundation of all 
access, and any fineness it may attain; and “pruning and training,” is dependent 
i pon it, inasmuch as, without something on which to operate, it is not expected to 
rove its nature, much more to produce any result. 
We have said nothing of the principle we have been dealing with, as it relates 
> plants cultivated in pots. It is practised to a much greater extent upon them 
rnn things of a hardy description, as it is not only better understood, but its effects 
re more palpably evident. It is, however, here, far from experiencing that universal 
pplication it ought and will, as the better knowledge of plant culture, confined 
ithin circumscribed limits now, is farther extended. As it is in the hands of every 
alturist, it is practised to some extent, though very seldom to so great a degree, at 
ae time, or in the manner it ought. 
In this lengthy paper it is conceded at once we have employed language more 
gurative than we are wont, but offer no apology for having done so, if we are at all 
iccessful, by so doing, in directing attention to the subject more in its extent. 
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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 
vriting on this subject, we would also mention another most noble plant, specimens of which 
night certainly be procured by any of our African merchants. When Mr. Ansell was ill from 
he effects of the Niger expedition, at Fernando Po, he found in Clarence Coxe, growing on the 
terns of the" Oil Palm ( Elms guianensis) an epiphyte with a slender- jointed stem about two feet 
ong, having at the upper end many stiff, plaited lanceolate, five-ribbed leaves, and a terminal 
>anicle of flowers as large as those of Vanda Roxburgliii , 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 
n good preservation, and as it proves to be a new genus, we take this opportunity of naming it 
ifter its discoverer.” The Rev. John Clowes, and the Messrs. Loddiges, have received, since the 
ibove was written, this truly fine Orchid. The latter gentlemen flowered, in the beginning of the 
7 ear, the plant the subject of the present notice. Bot. Reg., 30. 
A5schina'nthus purpura'scens. JEschinantlius cdbida, Bignonia, albida, Trichosporum 
dbidum, and Lysionotus albidus are recorded by Sir W. J. Hooker as synonymes of this plant 
‘ It is a species readily distinguished from the rest of the genus by its sinuate-toothed leaves, by 
he dark purple-brown prominent midrib on the under side, by the long, purple, subulate laciniae 
