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been weil known at the time, but soon forgotten 
simply because not recorded in any work of a 
permanent character. Being a new type and the 
proper method of cultivating it not then discovered 
cr understood, 1t may never have been presented in 
its best form. Jts natural defect in having a short, 
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splitting calyx must also have militated against its 
acceptance by the florists cf. those days. This alone 
would have caused it to linger on for years in 
obscurity till some cultivator discovered how to grow 
and present it in its best form. In this country 
it may be grown entirely as a border plant though it 
fails under such conditions to give anything like a 
- Satisfactory account of itself except in fine seasons. 
