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flowers will nearly all be protruded to the outside of the trellis, and their beauty 
will then be easily discerned. 
Deutzia scabrci is an exceedingly interesting shrub, lately added to our collec- 
tions, as hardy as the common Syringa, and apparently requiring as little tendance. 
We saw last month, however, in the nursery of Messrs. Young of Epsom, a speci- 
men of this species which so far surpassed what we had before witnessed, that we are 
induced to relate the very easy method by which its perfection had been realized. 
Like most kinds of Philadelphus , it has a tendency to emit many suckers 
annually from its roots ; and unless some of these are cut off or extracted soon after 
they appear, the plant will acquire a character rather of luxuriance than of pro- 
ductiveness. If, on the other hand, only four or five suckers are left every year, 
these, in the ensuing season, will bloom with a prodigality which is quite astonish- 
ing. The specimen above mentioned was about three or four feet in height, and 
the branches, judiciously brought together, formed a slender pyramid, covered 
with thousands of snowy white blossoms, pleasingly relieved by the bright green 
leaves of the few new shoots that had been left to flower in the succeeding year. 
We may truly observe that it was an object which not more delighted than 
surprised us. 
We must now pass from hardy shrubs to an orchidaceous plant, in the manage- 
ment of which cultivators have been too unmindful of its habits, and have, 
consequently, not enjoyed the whole of its charms. The plant to which we allude 
is one of the loveliest species of the surpassingly rich genus Dendrobium — D.Jimbri- 
atum. An enormous specimen of it was flowered with extraordinary success by 
Messrs. R-ollisson of Tooting, in June ; and we are desirous of reporting one or two 
features in the culture it had received. 
It is not a little perplexing to some cultivators who are the strenuous advocates 
of a season of repose or drought for Dendrobiums, that Messrs. Loddiges, whose 
specimens of this genus are notorious alike for their magnitude and for the splendid 
manner in which they flower, never vary their treatment, summer or winter, 
beyond the necessary modification caused by the seasons themselves. The effects 
obtained by these gentlemen are, however, greatly due to the old and established 
character of their plants, and the singular power which Orchidacem possess of 
conforming to almost any moderately suitable, regular system of cultivation. And 
it may be remarked that Messrs. Loddiges’ Dendrobiums flower, for the most part, 
on the old defoliated stems alone. 
Now Messrs. Kollisson’s specimen of D. Jimbriatum had been kept in a state of 
drought and torpidity through two or three of the winter months, and this 
suspension of its powers was so prolonged into the spring, that its flowering period 
was deferred till June, which is two months later than ordinary. The flowers, in 
consequence, when they were produced, appeared all over the young as well as the 
older shoots, and their intense golden hue was rendered far more brilliant by having 
such a lively green background in the foliage. 
