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])erialis were too tender to staud our winters, and if we were 

 accustomed to see it only in a young and simple-stemmed 

 condition and with large leaves, we should doubtless plant it 

 out every summer as we do Ferdinanda. There is no occasion 

 whatever to resort to exotic subjects, while we can so easily 

 obtain fine hardy plants— which, moreover, may be grown 

 by everybody and everywhere. By annually cutting down 



AILANTUS AND CANNAS. 

 Sii^^vsii/i^ tlu effects to be obtained from certain young trees cut down annually. 



young plants of various hardy trees and shrubs 

 them make a simple-stemmed growth every year, 

 a rule, obtain finer efiects than can be got from 

 The Ailantus, for example, treated in this way, 

 fine a type of pinnate leaf as can be desired, 

 place Astrapsea Wallichii in the open air, so long 

 stemmed young plant of the Paulownia makes 

 superb leaves. The delicately cut leaves of the 



, and letting 

 we shall, as 

 tender ones, 

 gives us as 



Nor need we 

 as a simple- 



a column of 

 Gleditschias, 



