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pleasing, particularly so when planted in connection with 

 canna and caladium. In our climate it is an annual, 

 ripening its seeds where the early varieties of corn will 

 mature. Yet if seeds grown with us are planted in sub- 

 tropical regions it makes a tree thirty to forty feet high, 

 and in Cuba the writer has seen trees two feet in diameter 

 of stem. 



