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There are three species in general cultivation in this country, ! 
: F. viridissima, F. suspensa, and F. Fortunei, the last some- 
times being considered a variety of the second. 
Of these, F. viridissima is the least desirable, from a horti- 
cultural point of view. It is a low shrub, not as hardy as the 
others, with stiff upright branches. The undivided leaves are 
narrowly elliptic, of similar shape at both ends, steh exceeding = 
one third as broad as long, with the apex acute, and the margins 
rae saw-toothed from about the middle upwards, or rarely. 
the argin tire. In the fall they assume: usually a 
eee at bronze-green, a characteristic not so marked in the 
other eee The flowers are borne in great profusion in a 
wded m 
Oe. pep aie is re other extreme in habit, as compared with 
the above. Its stems are long and slender, drooping and pendant 
at the ends, and forming a fountain-like effect. On account of 
its habit it makes an excellent porch or wall plant, lending itself 
readily to the festooning and decorating of. columns or pillars. 
The leaves are broadly ovate, more than one half as broad as 
long, acute, sharply saw-toothed, excepting at the base, and 
frequently, especially on the more vigorous shoots, deeply three- 
parted, the basal lobes much smaller than the termidal one. The 
flowers are not borne so profusely as in F. viridissima, and they 
are pendant on long slender pedicels which give them a very 
graceful and airy appearance. The form known as F. Sieboldit 
is also this plant. 
e third species in cultivation is F. Fortunei. This is often 
considered a variety of the preceding. It is a stouter, more © 
vigorous shrub, with more rigid branches, the ends of which are 
somewhat drooping or hanging, but to nowhere near the extent 
as those of F. suspensa. The ends of the branches are also 
often seen or wand-like, giving it a rather straguling aaa 
ance. The leaves also resemble those of F. suspensa, but 
eared ee a more vigorous, being panate lobed in a 
milar manner. _The flowers are even more scattered than in 
FE suspensa, on much shorter pedicels, thus losing the pendulous 
effect. The lobes of the corolla are also narrower and more 
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