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and handsome foliage, and rapid summer growth, which, moreover, 

 never becomes objectionable from any trace of raggedness, the 

 erect shoots growing away till the end of the season in our climate. 

 Doubtless, there is a point at which in their native country seedi- 

 ness does arrive, but with us they, like the Ricinus of one summer, 



Fig. 6. — Polymnia grandis. 



always look fresh and young, and are most appropriate for form- 

 ing luxuriant masses of foliage in the flower garden, and for 

 diversifying its aspect. P. grandis is best known in this country, 

 and is second to no other plant for its dignified and yet finished 

 effect in the flower garden; but P. maculata and P. pyrami- 



